Codon usage and genome evolution

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 1994, Pages 851-860

  Sharp, Paul M ^a   Matassi, Giorgio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; CAENORHABDITIS; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CODON USAGE; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION; FUNGAL GENETICS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC DRIFT; GENOME; HUMAN; MAMMAL; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

ANIMAL; BASE COMPOSITION; CODON; DINUCLEOSIDE PHOSPHATES; DNA, HELMINTH; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, INSECT; GENOME; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOME, FUNGAL; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMAN; MAMMALS; SELECTION (GENETICS); SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TRANSLATION, GENETIC;

EID: 0028631919     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0959-437X(94)90070-1     Document Type: Article

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