Nucleotide bias causes a genomewide bias in the amino acid composition of proteins

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 1581-1588

  Singer, Gregory A C ^a   Hickey, Donal A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Amino acid composition; Bioinformatics; Codon usage; Genomes; Nucleotide content; Proteome composition; Proteomics

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME PROTEIN; DNA;

AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; CODON USAGE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI; MYXOGASTRIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0033745103     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a026257     Document Type: Article

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