Statistics of trinucleotides in coding sequences and evolution

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 222, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 139-149

  Takeuchi, Fumihiko ^a   Futamura, Yasuhiro ^a   Yoshikura, Hiroshi ^b   Yamamoto, Kenji ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR GLOBAL HEALTH AND MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Coding sequence; Codon space; Codon usage; Evolution; Principal component analysis; Randomness; Statistics of Trinucleotides; Theoretical amino acid frequency; tRNA abundance

Indexed keywords

TRINUCLEOTIDE;

AMINO ACID; EVOLUTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; BACTERIUM; CODON; EUKARYOTE; EVOLUTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; REVIEW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TAXONOMY; THEORY;

ARCHAEA; EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0037460099     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-5193(03)00021-3     Document Type: Review

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