On the evolution of the standard amino-acid alphabet

Genome Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Lu, Yi ^a   Freeland, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; AMINO ACID; ARGININE; CITRULLINE; DNA; HISTIDINE; LYSINE; ORNITHINE; SELENOCYSTEINE;

ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOENGINEERING; BIOINFORMATICS; CODON; DNA STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GENOMICS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; GENETICS; PROTEIN ENGINEERING;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; PROTEIN ENGINEERING;

EID: 33745888090     PISSN: 1474760X     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2006-7-1-102     Document Type: Article

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