Amino acid and codon usage profiles: Adaptive changes in the frequency of amino acids and codons

Gene

Volumn 407, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 30-41

  Goodarzi, Hani ^a   Torabi, Noorossadat ^b   Najafabadi, Hamed Shateri ^b   Archetti, Marco ^c  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Codon usage profiles; Extreme environments; Genetic robustness; Molecular evolution

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID;

AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CELL FUNCTION; CODON; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE MAPPING; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AMINO ACIDS; BACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; CODON; GENETIC CODE; GENOME; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER);

EID: 37049026439     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2007.09.020     Document Type: Article

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