The robust statistical bases of the coevolution theory of genetic code origin

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 258-263

  Di Giulio, Massimo ^a   Medugno, Mario ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND BIOPHYSICS ADRIANO BUZZATI TRAVERSO   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biosynthetic relationships between amino acids; Coevolution; Genetic code theories; Hypergeometric distribution; Random code distributions

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; GENETIC CODE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; RANDOMIZATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0033937045     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002399910030     Document Type: Article

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