Codon usage in twelve species of Drosophila

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Vicario, Saverio ^a   Moriyama, Etsuko N ^b   Powell, Jeffrey R ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CODON USAGE; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC SELECTION; NONHUMAN; X CHROMOSOME; ANIMAL; CODON; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; INTRON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

DROSOPHILA WILLISTONI; MELANOGASTER;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CODON; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; INTRONS; MUTATION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SELECTION (GENETICS); SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 38649096895     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-7-226     Document Type: Article

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