On negative selection against ATG triplets near start codons in eukaryotic and prokaryotic genomes

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 213-217

  Saito, Rintaro ^a   Tomita, Masaru ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

AUG triplets; Negative selection; Start codon; Translation initiation; Triplet frequency; Untranslated region

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; DATA BASE; DNA FLANKING REGION; EUKARYOTE; GENOME; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROKARYOTE; RIBOSOME; START CODON; TRANSLATION INITIATION;

ANIMALS; CODON, INITIATOR; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; GENOME; HUMANS; PROKARYOTIC CELLS; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS;

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0032903891     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00006460     Document Type: Article

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