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Abstract
First principles of population genetics are used to obtain formulae relating the non-synonymous to synonymous substitution rate ratio to the selection coefficients acting at codon sites in protein-coding genes. Two theoretical cases are discussed and two examples from real data (a chloroplast gene and a virus polymerase) are given. The formulae give much insight into the dynamics of non-synonymous substitutions and may inform the development of methods to detect adaptive evolution.Keywords: adaptive evolution; chloroplast; influenza; non-synonymous/synonymous ratio; selection; substitution
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Year: 2015 PMID: 25854546 PMCID: PMC4424610 DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2014.1031
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Biol Lett ISSN: 1744-9561 Impact factor: 3.703