Mutational drift prevails over translational efficiency in Frankia nif operons

Indian Journal of Biotechnology

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 321-328

  Sur, Saubashya ^a   Sen, Arnab ^a   Bothra, Asim K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH BENGAL   (India)

^b RAIGANJ UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Codon usage; Frankia; Mutational bias; nif; Nitrogen fixation; ORF; Translational efficiency

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CODON USAGE; FRANKIA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NIF GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; RNA TRANSLATION;

FRANKIA; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 34548256871     PISSN: 09725849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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