Codon usage and selection on proteins

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 635-653

  Plotkin, Joshua B ^a   Dushoff, Jonathan ^b   Desai, Michael M ^c   Fraser, Hunter B ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d University of California Berkeley   (United States)

Author keywords

Codon usage; Diffusion; Fisher Wright; Protein evolution; Selection; Volatility

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CODON USAGE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; FISHER WRIGHT MODEL; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC SELECTION; HETEROZYGOSITY; MEASUREMENT; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; MICROORGANISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION RATE; NEGATIVE SELECTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POINT MUTATION; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION SIZE; POSITIVE SELECTION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL; VOLATILITY;

ALGORITHMS; ALLELES; CODON; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MODELS, GENETIC; PROTEINS; SELECTION (GENETICS);

EID: 33751581371     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00239-005-0233-x     Document Type: Article

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