On the evolution of codon volatility

Genetics

Volumn 169, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 495-501

  Zhang, Jianzhi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE FREQUENCY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; VOLATILIZATION;

ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; CODON; EVOLUTION; GC RICH SEQUENCE; GENES; GENOME; HUMANS; MUTATION; SELECTION (GENETICS);

ESCHERICHIA COLI; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NEGIBACTERIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POSIBACTERIA; PROTOZOA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 13744250349     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.104.034884     Document Type: Article

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