Effects of GC content and mutational pressure on the lengths of exons and coding sequences

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 362-370

  Xia, Xuhua ^a,b   Xie, Zheng ^b   Li, Wen Hsiung ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b HUNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Coding sequences; Exon length; GC content; Mutation pressure; Nonsense

Indexed keywords

NUCLEIC ACID;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EUKARYOTE; EXON; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENOME; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREDICTION; PRESSURE; PROKARYOTE; STOP CODON; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

ANIMALS; ARABIDOPSIS; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; CATTLE; EXONS; GC RICH SEQUENCE; HUMANS; MICE; MUTATION; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYLOGENY; RATS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EUKARYOTA; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM; PROKARYOTA; TREPONEMA; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

EID: 0037370454     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00239-002-2406-1     Document Type: Article

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