Comment on "Large-scale sequence analysis of avian influenza isolates".

نویسندگان

  • Edward C Holmes
  • David J Lipman
  • Dmitriy Zamarin
  • Jonathan W Yewdell
چکیده

Obenauer et al. (Research Articles, 17 March 2006, p. 1576) reported that the influenza A virus PB1-F2 gene is evolving under strong positive selection, as documented by an extremely high ratio of the number of nonsynonymous nucleotide substitutions to the number of synonymous substitutions (dN/dS). However, we show that this observation is likely to be an artifact related to the location of PB1-F2 in the +1 reading frame of the PB1 gene.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Science

دوره 313 5793  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2006