A relationship between GC content and coding-sequence length

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 216-223

  Oliver, José L ^a   Marín, Antonio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Base composition; Coding sequence length; Compositional heterogeneity; Stop codon density

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; GENETIC CODE; GENOME; OPEN READING FRAME; STOP CODON; VERTEBRATE;

PROKARYOTA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0029789685     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02338829     Document Type: Article

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