How mitochondria redefine the code

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 53, Issue 4-5, 2001, Pages 299-313

  Knight, Robin D ^a   Landweber, Laura F ^a   Yarus, Michael ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Genetic code; Genome; Mutation; Reassignment

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; CYTOSINE; GUANOSINE; MITOCHONDRIAL RNA; THYMINE; TRANSFER RNA;

AMBIGUITY; ARTICLE; DNA CONTENT; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOSS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; HUMAN; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; RNA GENE;

BASE COMPOSITION; CODON; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC CODE; GENOME; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; RNA, TRANSFER;

EID: 0034835968     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002390010220     Document Type: Article

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