The preliminary examination of the simulation script tested the effect of the relative order of string elements. The initial homogeneous seed population of size ten is subjected to the mutation of a single digit per string-the position of the mutation being chosen randomly. Inputs are a “seed” string and a target string. The program incorporates mutation, replication, and selection in cycles. A “1” in a position contributes a positive effect on the fitness of the virus in a particular environment, the latter assumed to be held constant. Each position in the string is diallelic, having just two states, “0” and “1”, that can mutate from one to the other. Genomes were represented as strings of an arbitrary length of 12, representing variable positions in the sequence. We devised a simple program (Mevolve.c4d Supplementary Material) to generate evolutionary distances using a network similar to the neutral network of Manrubia and Cuesta, except that we focused on non-neutral mutations. To test the hypothesis, we defined the phylogenetic distance as the number of loci (sequence positions) that differ between the two sequences and evolutionary distances, as the number of modeled mutations used to transition between the two sequences, given the mutation, replication, and selection processes. Accurate correction requires an understanding of the root causes of TDRP. Various ways of correcting for time-dependent rate phenomena (TDRP) have been proposed, including different scales for different biological epochs, avoiding sequencing errors, correcting for tree imbalances, and a better treatment of the influence of rate heterogeneity among sites. Artefacts and biases have been proposed as explanations for the discrepancies. Power law and exponential relationships have been proposed and tested for the relationship of rates to time spans. The current issue is how the number of evolutionary steps needed to evolve from an ancestor is related to the phylogenetic distance between the tip and ancestor. The integration of results from these diverse studies led to the recognition that the rates observed are dependent on the time scale being investigated-with short-term studies giving fast substitution rates, with orders of magnitude having lower rates for deep calibrations. A Basic simulation revealed that the relationship between simulated genetic and mutational distances is non-linear, and can be consistent with different rates of nucleotide substitution at different depths of branches in phylogenetic trees. We tested, by computational inference, the hypothesis that the phylogenetic distances between the pairs of sequences are functions of the evolutionary path lengths between them. We sought to test computationally whether the basic phenomena of virus evolution (mutation, replication, and selection) can explain the relationships between the evolutionary and phylogenetic distances. Although each of these factors may contribute to this time dependent rate phenomenon, a more fundamental cause should be considered. Diverse studies of viral evolution have led to the recognition that the evolutionary rates of viral taxa observed are dependent on the time scale being investigated-with short-term studies giving fast substitution rates, and orders of magnitude lower rates for deep calibrations.

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