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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
2002-8-7
pubmed:abstractText
Retroviral and other reverse transcriptase (RT)-containing sequences may be subject to unique evolutionary pressures, and models of molecular sequence evolution developed using other kinds of sequences may not be optimal. Here we develop and present a new substitution matrix for maximum likelihood (ML) phylogenetic analysis which has been optimized on a dataset of 33 amino acid sequences from the retroviral Pol proteins. When compared to other matrices, this model (rtREV) yields higher log-likelihood values on a range of datasets including lentiviruses, spumaviruses, betaretroviruses, gammaretroviruses, and other elements containing reverse transcriptase. We provide evidence that rtREV is a more realistic evolutionary model for analyses of the pol gene, although it is inapplicable to analyses involving the gag gene.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jul
pubmed:issn
0022-2844
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
55
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
65-73
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2002
pubmed:articleTitle
rtREV: an amino acid substitution matrix for inference of retrovirus and reverse transcriptase phylogeny.
pubmed:affiliation
Biophysics Research Division, University of Michigan, 930 North University Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1055, USA. mdimmic@umich.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't