Table 2

Corrected ratio of nonsynonymous to synonymous substitution in several FMDV populations

Viral populationa

dn/ds (Molecular clones)b

dn/ds (Consensus sequences)c


RAp35

0.16

N.D

RAp45

0.08

0.09 (MALRS)

RAp60

0.07

0.08 (MARLS)

RA0p35

0.12

N.D.

C-S8p260p3d

N.D.

0.63 (C-S8c1)

MARLS

1.21d

0.65 (C-S8c1)


N.D. not determined.

aThe viral populations analyzed are those described in Figure 1 and Methods.

bdn/ds is the ratio of nonsynonymous mutations (corrected per nonsynonymous site) to synonymous mutation (corrected per synonymous site), calculated as described in Methods [85,86]. Values correspond to calculations using nucleotide sequences from molecular clones (as described in Table 1).

cdn/ds calculated as in b, applied to consensus nucleotide sequences, compared with the corresponding parental clone (given in parenthesis).

dThis value was calculated with biological clones derived from MARLS, using the L (leader) protease-and capsid-coding regions.

Ojosnegros et al. BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008 8:207   doi:10.1186/1471-2148-8-207

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