Estimating the contributions of selection and self-organization in RNA secondary structure

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 76-83

  Schultes, Erik A ^a,b,e   Hraber, Peter T ^c,d   LaBean, Thomas H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR GENOME RESOURCES   (United States)

^e WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Extrinsic evolutionary constraints; Intrinsic evolutionary constraints; Morphospace; Phenetics; RNA structure

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA SEQUENCE; HYDROGEN BOND; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RNA CONFORMATION; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA SYNTHESIS;

ALGORITHMS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RNA; SELECTION (GENETICS);

EID: 0033013683     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00006536     Document Type: Article

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