Solving the riddle of codon usage preferences: A test for translational selection

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 32, Issue 17, 2004, Pages 5036-5044

  dos Reis, Mario ^a   Savva, Renos ^a   Wernisch, Lorenz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSFER RNA;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; CODON; EUKARYOTE; EVOLUTION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENOME; GENOME SIZE; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; RNA TRANSLATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STATISTICAL MODEL; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PROKARYOTIC CELL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS;

ARCHAEA; EUKARYOTA; HELICOBACTER; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HOMO; HOMO SAPIENS; PROKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

ANIMALS; CODON; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; GENETIC CODE; GENOME; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROKARYOTIC CELLS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA, TRANSFER;

EID: 4644280499     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkh834     Document Type: Article

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