… of purifying selection in RNA viruses than in DNA viruses, implying that purifying selection
has been … of slightly deleterious nonsynonymous variants in RNA viruses than in DNA viruses. …

… or by biased mutation processes, we harnessed the effects of incomplete purifying selection
at the tips of virus phylogenies. Our results revealed consistent mutational biases toward U …

… by a mutation-selection … A second confirmation of purifying selection in RNA viruses comes
from molecular … Purifying selection can explain why some RNA viruses are segmented and …

… This analysis provided strong evidence that the capsid proteins of vector-borne plant
viruses are subject to greater purifying selection on amino acid change than those …

… selection pressures acting on arthropod-borne RNA viruses (arboviruses). In particular, it is
unclear why arboviruses such as dengue virus … in populations of dengue virus sampled at …

… to the problem of underestimated branch lengths due to purifying selection, our results do
point to a couple of guidelines when inferring tMRCAs in RNA viruses. First, the inference of …

… RNA viruses and retroviruses fix substitutions approximately 1 million-fold faster than their
hosts. This diversification could represent an inevitable drift under purifying selection, the …

… Following those authors, population genetics theory is a good descriptor for those populations
where mutations are rare events and purifying selection is the main evolutionary force …

… (VSV) and analyzed rates of mutation in the short-term, which may have included deleterious
changes that are removed by purifying selection at transmission. A similar pattern has been …

… picornavirus serotypes, in which neutral or purifying selection was prominent. Overall, this
… -stranded RNA virus family Picornaviridae comprises a diverse range of mammalian viruses …