Strand asymmetry and codon usage bias in the chloroplast genome of Euglena gracilis

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 96, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 5123-5128

  Morton, Brian R ^a  

^a Department of Biological Sciences Barnard College Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Codon bias; Nucleotide composition; Selection

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHLOROPLAST; CODON; EUGLENA GRACILIS; GENE REPLICATION; GENOME; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EUGLENA GRACILIS;

EID: 0033608986     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.96.9.5123     Document Type: Article

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