Biased codon usage near intron-exon junctions: Selection on splicing enhancers, splice-site recognition or something else?

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 256-259

  Chamary, Jean Vincent ^a   Hurst, Laurence D ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE;

CODON; CODON USAGE; EXON; GENOME ANALYSIS; INTRON; MODEL; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA SPLICING;

EID: 17644370601     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2005.03.001     Document Type: Short Survey

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