Effects of gene expression on molecular evolution in Arabidopsis thaliana and Arabidopsis lyrata

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1719-1726

  Wright, Stephen I ^a,c   Yau, C B Kenneth ^a   Looseley, Mark ^a   Meyers, Blake C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^c YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis lyrata; Arabidopsis thaliana; Codon bias; MPSS; Protein evolution; TRNA

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CODON; CODON BIAS; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN EVOLUTION; RNA TRANSLATION;

ARABIDOPSIS; CODON; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA, PLANT; RNA, TRANSFER; SELECTION (GENETICS); SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS LYRATA; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; EMBRYOPHYTA; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 4143122090     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msh191     Document Type: Article

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