Codon size reduction as the origin of the triplet genetic code

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Baranov, Pavel V ^a   Venin, Maxime ^a   Provan, Gregory ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

ACCURACY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CODON; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POINT MUTATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RIBOSOME; RNA TRANSLATION; SIMULATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETICS;

CODON; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC CODE; MODELS, GENETIC; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 66349117421     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0005708     Document Type: Article

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