Codon Usage Decreases the Error Minimization Within the Genetic Code

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 533-537

  Zhu, Chen Tseh ^a   Zeng, Xiao Bin ^b   Huang, Wei Da ^b  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Codon usage; Genetic code; Mistranslation; Transition transversion bias; Translation error minimization

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; NUCLEOTIDE;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CODON; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; GENETIC CODE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RNA TRANSLATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; CODON; GENETIC CODE; POINT MUTATION; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS;

EID: 0242301600     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00239-003-2505-7     Document Type: Article

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