An evaluation of measures of synonymous codon usage bias

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 268-274

  Comeron, Josep M ^a,b   Aguadé, Montserrat ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

'Scaled' 2; Codon adaptation index; Codon bias index; Effective number of codons; Estimation methods; Intrinsic codon bias index; Synonymous codon usage bias

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; CODON; CODON USAGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; CODON; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, FUNGAL; GENES, INSECT; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0031694427     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00006384     Document Type: Article

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