Accounting for background nucleotide composition when measuring codon usage bias [2]

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 1390-1394

  Novembre, John A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Background nucleotide composition; Codon usage bias; Mutation bias

Indexed keywords

CODON USAGE; EVOLUTION; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC SELECTION; LETTER; MATHEMATICAL GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CODON; MATHEMATICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION;

BASE SEQUENCE; CODON; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, GENETIC;

EID: 0036667702     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a004201     Document Type: Letter

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