Relationships among stop codon usage bias, its context, isochores, and gene expression level in various eukaryotes

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 437-444

  Sun, Jingchun ^a   Chen, Ming ^a   Xu, Jinlin ^a   Luo, Jianhua ^a,b  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NONE   (China)

Author keywords

CAI value; Gene expression level; Isochores; Secondary structure; Stop codon

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EUKARYOTE EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITION; STOP CODON;

BASE SEQUENCE; CODON, TERMINATOR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION; ISOCHORES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 26244447103     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00239-004-0277-3     Document Type: Article

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