Thermophilic prokaryotes have characteristic patterns of codon usage, amino acid composition and nucleotide content

Gene

Volumn 317, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 39-47

  Singer, Gregory A C ^a,b   Hickey, Donal A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

DNA; Natural selection; Purine; RNA stability; Thermal adaptation

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; ANTICODON; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CODON USAGE; CONFERENCE PAPER; GENE FREQUENCY; HIGH TEMPERATURE; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MORPHOLOGICAL ADAPTATION; NATURAL SELECTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONTENT; RNA STABILITY; SPECIES COMPARISON; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM; THERMOSTABILITY;

PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0242290154     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(03)00660-7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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