On the informational content of overlapping genes in prokaryotic and eukaryotic viruses

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 625-631

  Pavesi, Angelo ^a   De Iaco, Bettina ^a   Granero, Maria Ilde ^a   Porati, Alfredo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Amino acid composition; Codon usage; Information Theory; Overlapping genes

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CODON USAGE; EUKARYOTE; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; PROKARYOTE; VIRAL GENETICS; VIRUS GENE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, VIRAL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANTS; PROKARYOTIC CELLS;

AVES; EUKARYOTA; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; LENTIVIRUS; LUTEOVIRUS; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0030976687     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00006185     Document Type: Article

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