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. 2010 Apr 21;84(13):6497–6504. doi: 10.1128/JVI.01603-09

TABLE 2.

Selection pressures acting on each lineage of chikungunya virus

Data set Mean dN/dS (95% CI)
I/Ea No. of negatively selected codonsb Positively selected codon positionb
Overall Internal External
Asian21 0.125 (0.108-0.142) 0.095 (0.073-0.118) 0.152 (0.125-0.179) 0.63 70 NA
WAf11 0.066 (0.051-0.082) 0.040 (0.016-0.063) 0.075 (0.056-0.095) 0.53 64 NA
ECSA9 0.088 (0.060-0.115) 0.058 (0.049-0.068) 0.103 (0.080-0.126) 0.57 96 NA
Epidemic39 0.285 (0.232-0.338) 0.278 (0.056-0.497) 0.286 (0.300-0.343) 0.97 16 C-23; C-27; E1-226
a

I/E/, ration of internal to external values.

b

Significant at α = 0.05.