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ArticleViruses2019

Modeling of Mutational Events in the Evolution of Viruses.

Akhtar Ali, Ulrich Melcher

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Article in Viruses, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Akhtar AliDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK 74104, USA. akhtar-ali@utulsa.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-3474-0253
Ulrich MelcherDepartment of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK 74078-3035, USA. ulrich.melcher@okstate.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-5746-205X

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Diverse studies of viral evolution have led to the recognition that the evolutionary rates of viral taxa observed are dependent on the time scale being investigated-with short-term studies giving fast substitution rates, and orders of magnitude lower rates for deep calibrations. Although each of these factors may contribute to this time dependent rate phenomenon, a more fundamental cause should be considered. We sought to test computationally whether the basic phenomena of virus evolution (mutation, replication, and selection) can explain the relationships between the evolutionary and phylogenetic distances. We tested, by computational inference, the hypothesis that the phylogenetic distances between the pairs of sequences are functions of the evolutionary path lengths between them. A Basic simulation revealed that the relationship between simulated genetic and mutational distances is non-linear, and can be consistent with different rates of nucleotide substitution at different depths of branches in phylogenetic trees.

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Evolution, MolecularMutationHumansPhylogenyVirus DiseasesVirusesendogenous viral elementsspeciationvirus–host co-divergencevirus networks

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PMID31060293
PMCPMC6563203

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