Selection on codon usage for error minimization at the protein level

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 400-415

  Archetti, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Amino acid similarity; Codon usage; Drosophila melanogaster; Error minimization; Genetic code; Nucleotide substitution; Rodents

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; CODON USAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ERROR; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CODE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; RODENT;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; CODON; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC CODE; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; PROTEINS; RODENTIA; SELECTION (GENETICS);

ARACHNIDA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; MELANOGASTER; RODENTIA;

EID: 4344670690     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00239-004-2634-7     Document Type: Article

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