The extent of codon usage bias in human RNA viruses and its evolutionary origin

Virus Research

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-7

  Jenkins, Gareth M ^a   Holmes, Edward C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Base composition; Codon usage bias; Dinucleotide; Mutation pressure; Translational selection

Indexed keywords

BASE; DINUCLEOTIDE; VIRUS VECTOR;

AEROSOL; ARENAVIRUS; ARTICLE; ASTROVIRUS; BUNYAVIRUS; CALICIVIRUS; CODON USAGE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EVOLUTION; FILOVIRUS; FLAVIVIRUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORTHOMYXOVIRUS; PARAMYXOVIRUS; PICORNAVIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOVIRUS; RETROVIRUS; RHABDOVIRUS; RNA TRANSLATION; RNA VIRUS; ROTAVIRUS; TOGAVIRUS; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

BASE COMPOSITION; CODON; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, VIRAL; HUMANS; RNA VIRUSES; RNA, VIRAL;

RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 0037372775     PISSN: 01681702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-1702(02)00309-X     Document Type: Article

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