Genome rhetoric and the emergence of compositional bias

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 215-220

  Vetsigian, Kalin ^a   Goldenfeld, Nigel ^b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

Codon bias; Coevolution; GC content; Multistability; Skew

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; GENE REPLICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RNA TRANSLATION;

BASE COMPOSITION; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; DNA REPLICATION; EVOLUTION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

BORRELIA BURGDORFERI;

EID: 58549100331     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0810122106     Document Type: Article

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