General rules for optimal codon choice

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Hershberg, Ruth ^a   Petrov, Dmitri A ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CODON; CODON USAGE; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; FUNGUS; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENOMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; ARCHAEAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENE; FUNGAL GENE; GENETICS; GENOME; NONPARAMETRIC TEST;

FUNGI;

SPACER DNA;

BASE COMPOSITION; CODON; DNA, INTERGENIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, ARCHAEAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, FUNGAL; GENOME; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 68249114427     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000556     Document Type: Article

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