Directionally evolving genetic code: The UGA codon from stop to tryptophan in mitochondria

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 378-384

  Inagaki, Yuji ^a,c   Ehara, Megumi ^b   Watanabe, Kazuo I ^b   Hayashi Ishimaru, Yasuko ^a,d   Ohama, Takeshi ^a  

^a JT Biohistory Research Hall ^*  (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

COXI phylogenetic tree; Deviant genetic code; Directional codon reassignment; UGA codon

Indexed keywords

DNA; RIBOSOME RNA; TRANSFER RNA; TRYPTOPHAN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CODON; GENETIC CODE; GENOME; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ALGAE; AMOEBA; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CODON; CODON, TERMINATOR; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC CODE; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MITOCHONDRIA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRYPTOPHAN;

ACANTHAMOEBA CASTELLANII; ALGAE; ANIMALIA; AULACOSEIRA AMBIGUA; BACILLARIOPHYTA; CHLORARACHNIOPHYCEAE; CHONDRUS CRISPUS; CILIOPHORA; CRYPTOMONAS OVATA; DIACRONEMA VLKIANUM; EUGLYPHA ROTUNDA; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; INVERTEBRATA; KINETOPLASTIDA; MELOSIRA; PAVLOVALES; PROTISTA; PROTOZOA; RHODOPHYTA;

EID: 0031716525     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00006395     Document Type: Article

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