Analysis of synonymous codon usage in SARS Coronavirus and other viruses in the Nidovirales

Virus Research

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 155-161

  Gu, Wanjun ^a   Zhou, Tong ^a   Ma, Jianmin ^a   Sun, Xiao ^a   Lu, Zuhong ^a  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Base pair; bp; CA; Correspondence analysis; Effective number of codons; ENC; GC3S; Relative synonymous codon usage; RSCU; SARSCoV; Severe acute respiratory syndrome Coronavirus; The frequency of G+C at the synonymous third position of sense codons

Indexed keywords

ARTERIVIRUS; ARTICLE; CODON USAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NIDOVIRALES; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARS CORONAVIRUS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; VIRAL GENETICS; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS TRANSCRIPTION;

BASE COMPOSITION; CODON; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, VIRAL; MUTATION; NIDOVIRALES; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; SARS VIRUS;

CORONAVIRUS; NIDOVIRALES; SARS CORONAVIRUS;

EID: 1642412614     PISSN: 01681702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.virusres.2004.01.006     Document Type: Article

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