The atypical codon usage of the plant psbA gene may be the remnant of an ancestral bias

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 94, Issue 21, 1997, Pages 11434-11438

  Morton, Brian R ^a   Levin, Justine A ^a  

^a Barnard College of Columbia University   (United States)

Author keywords

Chloroplast; Molecular evolution; Selection

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL;

ARTICLE; CHLOROPLAST; CODON; GENE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANGIOSPERMS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CHLOROPLASTS; CODON; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOTOSYNTHETIC REACTION CENTER COMPLEX PROTEINS; PHOTOSYSTEM II PROTEIN COMPLEX; PLANTS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0030803755     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.94.21.11434     Document Type: Article

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