An evolutionary analytical model of a complementary circular code

BioSystems

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 83-103

  Arquès, Didier G ^a   Fallot, Jean Paul ^b   Marsan, Laurent ^a   Michel, Christian J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ GUSTAVE EIFFEL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TECHNOLOGIE DE BELFORT MONTBÉLIARD   (France)

Author keywords

Circular code; Evolutionary analytical model; Frequency asymmetry; Protein coding gene; Substitution; Trinucleotide probability

Indexed keywords

TRINUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; CODON; EVOLUTION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC CODE; MOLECULAR MODEL; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY;

ENTEROBACTERIA PHAGE T4; EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0032969772     PISSN: 03032647     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0303-2647(98)00038-0     Document Type: Article

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