Mutational Bias Affects Protein Evolution in Flowering Plants

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 90-96

  Wang, Huai Chun ^a   Singer, Gregory A C ^a   Hickey, Donal A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Amino acid; Angiosperm; Comparative genomics; Nucleotide

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; GUANINE; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; FLOWER; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; NONHUMAN; PLANT GENETICS; RICE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACIDS; ARABIDOPSIS; BASE COMPOSITION; DATABASES, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, PLANT; MUTATION; ORYZA SATIVA; PLANT PROTEINS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; ORYZA SATIVA;

EID: 1242284665     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msh003     Document Type: Article

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