Ratios of radical to conservative amino acid replacement are affected by mutational and compositional factors and may not be indicative of positive Darwinian selection

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 1022-1025

  Dagan, Tal ^a   Talmor, Yael ^a   Graur, Dan ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Amino acid composition; Codon usage; Conservative replacement; Genetic codes; Positive Darwinian selection; Radical replacement; Transistion bias

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CODON; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC SELECTION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; HUMAN; MAMMAL; MATHEMATICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROBABILITY;

DARWINIA;

AMINO ACID; PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; CODON; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MAMMALS; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROBABILITY; PROTEINS; SELECTION (GENETICS);

EID: 0035986857     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a004161     Document Type: Article

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