Similar rates but different modes of sequence evolution in introns and at exonic silent sites in rodents: Evidence for selectively driven codon usage

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1014-1023

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

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Codon usage bias; Dinucleotides; Fourfold degenerate sites; Introns; Point substitution rate; Purifying selection

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; DINUCLEOTIDE; THYMIDINE;

ARTICLE; BASE MISPAIRING; CODON USAGE; CPG ISLAND; DNA FLANKING REGION; EVOLUTIONARY RATE; EXON; GENE CONVERSION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INTRON; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOUSE; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; RAT;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CODON; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; DINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; INTRONS; RODENTIA; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

MAMMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 2442655226     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msh087     Document Type: Article

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