Rates of synonymous substitution do not indicate selective constraints on the codon use of the plant psbA gene

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 412-419

  Morton, Brian R ^a  

^a Barnard College of Columbia University   (United States)

Author keywords

chloroplast genome; codon bias; natural selection; nucleotide composition

Indexed keywords

TRANSFER RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CHLOROPLAST; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CODON; GENE MUTATION; GENOME; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT;

EID: 0030934591     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a025777     Document Type: Article

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