Intragenic spatial patterns of codon usage bias in prokaryotic and eukaryotic genomes

Genetics

Volumn 168, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 2245-2260

  Qin, Hong ^a,c   Wu, Wei Biao ^a   Comeron, Josep M ^b   Kreitman, Martin ^a   Li, Wen Hsiung ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CODON USAGE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; INTRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; START CODON; STOP CODON; SULFOLOBUS; THERMOTOGA MARITIMA;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; CODON; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENOME; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SULFOLOBUS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; COLI BACILLUS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; MELANOGASTER; PROKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SULFOLOBUS; SULFOLOBUS TOKODAII; THERMOTOGA MARITIMA;

EID: 11244324849     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.104.030866     Document Type: Article

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