Impact of bias discrepancy and amino acid usage on estimates of the effective number of codons used in a gene, and a test for selection on codon usage

Gene

Volumn 410, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 82-88

  Fuglsang, Anders ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b Norwegian Medicines Agency   (Norway)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Bias discrepancy; Codon usage; Selection

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID;

ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BUCHNERA; CODON USAGE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIMULATION;

AMINO ACIDS; CODON; EVOLUTION;

BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BUCHNERA APHIDICOLA STR. APS (ACYRTHOSIPHON PISUM);

EID: 40649096810     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2007.12.001     Document Type: Article

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