Amino acids as placeholders: Base-composition pressures on protein length in malaria parasites and prokaryotes

Applied Bioinformatics

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 117-130

  Rayment, Jonathan H ^a   Forsdyke, Donald R ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID;

AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CODON; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENOME; MALARIA; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PARASITE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTEINS; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 24944570557     PISSN: 11755636     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00822942-200504020-00005     Document Type: Article

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