Variation in the strength of selected codon usage bias among bacteria

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1141-1153

  Sharp, Paul M ^a   Bailes, Elizabeth ^a   Grocock, Russell J ^a,b   Peden, John F ^a,c   Sockett, R Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; CODON USAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC SELECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; BACTERIUM; CLASSIFICATION; CODON; GC RICH SEQUENCE; GENE DOSAGE; GENETICS; RNA GENE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS;

BACTERIA; CODON; GC RICH SEQUENCE; GENE DOSAGE; GENES, RRNA; GENOME, BACTERIAL; OPERON; PHYLOGENY; RNA, TRANSFER;

EID: 14544277543     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gki242     Document Type: Article

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