A dissection of volatility in yeast

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 2022-2026

  Stoletzki, Nina ^a   Welch, John ^b   Hermisson, Joachim ^a   Eyre Walker, Adam ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Codon bias; Nonsynonymous substitution rate; Selection; Volatility; Yeast

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID;

ARTICLE; CODON; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; VOLATILIZATION; YEAST;

BASE SEQUENCE; CODON; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, FUNGAL; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 24744444753     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msi192     Document Type: Article

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