Site-specific codon bias in bacteria

Genetics

Volumn 142, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 1037-1043

  Maynard Smith, J ^a   Smith, N H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CODON; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CODON; CODON, TERMINATOR; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENTEROBACTER; GLYCERALDEHYDE-3-PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASES; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PROLINE;

EID: 15844423271     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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