The Problem of Counting Sites in the Estimation of the Synonymous and Nonsynonymous Substitution Rates: Implications for the Correlation between the Synonymous Substitution Rate and Codon Usage Bias

Genetics

Volumn 165, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1587-1597

  Bierne, Nicolas ^a   Eyre Walker, Adam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CODON USAGE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DROSOPHILA; GOLDMAN YANG METHOD; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION RATE; MUTATIONAL OPPORTUNITY; NONHUMAN; NONSYNONYMOUS SUBSTITUTION RATE; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNONYMOUS SUBSTITUTION RATE;

ANIMALS; CODON; DROSOPHILA; MUTATION;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 0346991738     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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