This function is used to calculate Landgraf conservation metric. D_matrix contains substitution rates between two amino acids in the alignment, according to the following formula:
$$D(a,b)= (d(a,a)-d(a,b))/d(a,a)$$
where:
\(d(a,a)\) is a probability of AA substitution by itself
\(d(a,b)\) is a probability of substitution of amino acid a with other amino acid.