The influence of specific neighboring bases on substitution bias in noncoding regions of the plant chloroplast genome

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 227-231

  Morton, Brian R ^a   Oberholzer, Virginia M ^b   Clegg, Michael T ^b  

^a Barnard College of Columbia University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

A + T content; Neighboring base; Nucleotide composition; Nucleotide substitution

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHLOROPLAST; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; GENOME; GRASS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION;

CHLOROPLASTS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; MODELS, GENETIC; OPEN READING FRAMES; PURINES; PYRIMIDINES;

POACEAE;

EID: 0030870963     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00006224     Document Type: Article

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