Combining models of protein translation and population genetics to predict protein production rates from codon usage patterns

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 2362-2372

  Gilchrist, Michael A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Codon bias; Evolution; Fitness landscape; Nonsense errors; Synonymous substitution

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CODON USAGE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC DRIFT; GENOME; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; POPULATION GENETICS; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; BAYES THEOREM; CODON; CODON, NONSENSE; GENETICS, POPULATION; MODELS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 35848952077     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msm169     Document Type: Article

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