Genetic code evolution as an initial driving force for molecular evolution

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 388, Issue 18, 2009, Pages 3809-3825

  Li, Dirson Jian ^a   Zhang, Shengli ^a  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Genetic code evolution; Molecular evolution; Variation of amino acid frequency; Variation of genomic base composition

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY;

BASE COMPOSITION; EVOLUTIONARY TREND; GENETIC CODE; INTRINSIC MECHANISMS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR LEVELS; VARIATION OF AMINO ACID FREQUENCY; VARIATION PATTERN;

CODES (SYMBOLS);

EID: 67649421475     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2009.06.017     Document Type: Article

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