The nonrandom location of synonymous codons suggests that reading frame- independent forces have patterned codon preferences

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 36-43

  Antezana, Marcos A ^a   Kreitman, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias; Codon; Context dependent; Dinucleotide; Doublet triplet; History; Location; Major; Motif; Mutation; Preferred; Reading frame; Synonymous; Trinucleotide; Usage

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTICODON; ARTICLE; CODON USAGE; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DROSOPHILA; EUKARYOTE; GENE LOCATION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CODON; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, INSECT; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; RANDOM ALLOCATION;

ESCHERICHIA; EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCES;

EID: 0032975853     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00006532     Document Type: Article

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