Natural selection is not required to explain universal compositional patterns in rRNA secondary structure categories

RNA

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-14

  Smit, Sandra ^a   Yarus, Michael ^a   Knight, Rob ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Base composition; RNA secondary structure; Selection; Self organization

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NATURAL SELECTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONTENT; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RIBOSOME SUBUNIT; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

BASE COMPOSITION; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SELECTION (GENETICS); SOFTWARE; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 29844452150     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: 14699001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.2183806     Document Type: Article

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