Inferring the ancient history of the translation machinery and genetic code via recapitulation of ribosomal subunit assembly orders

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Fournier, Gregory P ^a   Neumann, Justin E ^b   Gogarten, J Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b University of Connecticut   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LARGE SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL RNA; RIBOSOME PROTEIN; SMALL SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL RNA; AMINO ACID;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHRONOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTION; GENETIC CODE; PLESIOMORPHY; PROBABILITY; RIBOSOME SUBUNIT; RNA TRANSLATION; ALGORITHM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RIBOSOME; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; AMINO ACIDS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC CODE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RIBOSOMAL PROTEINS; RIBOSOMES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 77949742102     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0009437     Document Type: Article

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