The repertoire of transfer RNA genes is tuned to codon usage bias in the genomes of Phytophthora sojae and Phytophthora ramorum

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1322-1328

  Tripathy, Sucheta ^a   Tyler, Brett M ^a  

^a VIRGINIA BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

tRNA gene copy number

Indexed keywords

TRANSFER RNA;

ANTICODON; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CODON; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENE DOSAGE; GENETICS; GENOME; PHYSIOLOGY; PHYTOPHTHORA; SYNTENY;

ANTICODON; CODON; GENE DOSAGE; GENOME; PHYTOPHTHORA; RNA, TRANSFER; SYNTENY;

PHYTOPHTHORA; PHYTOPHTHORA RAMORUM; PHYTOPHTHORA SOJAE;

EID: 33751567884     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-19-1322     Document Type: Article

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