Maximizing transcription efficiency causes codon usage bias

Genetics

Volumn 144, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 1309-1320

  Xia, Xuhua ^a,b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; CODON; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS REGULATION; RIBOSOME; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSLATION INITIATION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CODON; DNA; HUMANS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0029970817     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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