“…Therefore, SVA can rapidly enhance its own adaptive ability via synonymous codon bias evolution ( 18 ). Indeed, the codon preference analysis has indicated that natural selection is a primary driving force that affects the codon usage bias in SVA ( 15 ). Selection pressure analysis has additionally exhibited that the SVA polyprotein has been undergoing selection, with four amino acid residues located in the VP1, 2A, 3C, and 3D encoding regions that are under positive/diversifying selection ( 19 ).…”