Amino acid cost and codon-usage biases in 6 prokaryotic genomes: A whole-genome analysis

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1670-1680

  Heizer Jr , Esley M ^a   Raiford, Douglas W ^b   Raymer, Michael L ^b   Doom, Travis E ^b   Miller, Robert V ^c   Krane, Dan E ^a  

^a WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Wright State University   (United States)

^c OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive evolution; Amino acid cost; Bioinformatics; Codon usage bias; Genome; Prokaryote

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID;

AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; AUTOTROPHY; AUXOTROPHY; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; CODON USAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; GENE; GENETIC CODE; GENOME; GENOME ANALYSIS; HETEROTROPHY; LIGHT; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SYNECHOCYSTIS; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; AMINO ACIDS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE COMPOSITION; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CHLAMYDIACEAE; CODON; ENERGY METABOLISM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENOME, BACTERIAL; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; SELECTION (GENETICS); SELECTION, GENETIC; SYNECHOCYSTIS; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROKARYOTA; SYNECHOCYSTIS SP. PCC 6803; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

EID: 33748179680     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msl029     Document Type: Article

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