Network was doing some odd things last night when I posted this, so
apologies if this is a repeat posting....
I was wondering if any recent work has been done on SS or DS RNA virus
phylogeny specifically mentioning nucleotide composition and
nucleotide bias of RNAdepRNApol as an evolutionary influence. I
recently read the paper _Nucleotide composition as a driving force in the
evolution of retroviruses_ (Bronson & Anderson (1994) J. Mol. Evol.
38:506-532 article) which suggests mutational bias due to
reverse transcriptase in retroviruses may play an important role
in speciation. I was curious as to whether these results may be
generalized to other viral systems with similar low-fidelity nucleic
acid replication, such as the SS and DS RNA viruses. Any references
or comments of use would be much appreciated (please Email).
Thanks in advance
Dave Shivak
shivakd at meena.cc.uregina.ca
