Association of the φ nucleotide with codon bias, amino acid usage and expressivity: Differences between Bacillus subtilis and Escherichia coli

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Volumn 111, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 926-930

  Fuglsang, Anders ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Contingency tables; Gene composition; Prokaryotes; Selection; Shine Dalgarno regions

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CODON; CODON USAGE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACIDS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CODON; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, BACTERIAL; RNA, BACTERIAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0242267013     PISSN: 09034641     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0463.2003.1111002.x     Document Type: Article

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