The impact of including tRNA content on the optimality of the genetic code

Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1355-1368

  Goodarzi, Hani ^a   Najafabadi, Hamed Shateri ^a   Nejad, Hamed Ahmadi ^b   Torabi, Noorossadat ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CODON; GENETIC CODE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION;

AMINO ACIDS; CODON; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC CODE; MODELS, GENETIC; RNA, TRANSFER;

EID: 24944576058     PISSN: 00928240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bulm.2005.03.002     Document Type: Article

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