Can codon usage bias explain intron phase distributions and exon symmetry?

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 99-104

  Ruvinsky, A ^a   Eskesen, S T ^a   Eskesen, F N ^b   Hurst, L D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Codon usage; Exon symmetry; Intron phase distribution

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; CODON USAGE; EUKARYOTE; EXON; GENE INSERTION; INTRON; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; RNA SPLICING; SIMULATION;

ANIMALS; ARABIDOPSIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CODON; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EXONS; GENES; HUMANS; INTRONS; MODELS, GENETIC;

EID: 14644402410     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00239-004-0032-9     Document Type: Article

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