A comparative study of mutations in Escherichia coli and Salmonella typhimurium shows that codon conservation is strongly correlated with codon usage

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 206, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 307-311

  Alff Steinberger, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL MUTATION; CODON USAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MUTATION RATE; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTERIC BACTERIA; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 0034699539     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jtbi.2000.2126     Document Type: Article

References (5)

1. Synonymous substitution-rate constants in Escherichia coli and Salmonella typhimurium and their relationship to gene expression and selection pressure
2. Synonymous substitution rates in enterobacteria
3. Evolution in bacteria: Evidence for a universal subsitution rate in cellular genomes
4. Determinants of DNA sequence divergence between Escherichia coli and Salmonella typhimurium: Codon usage, map position, and concerted evolution
5. The rate of synonymous substitution in enterobacterial genes is inversely related to codon usage bias