Testing for selection on synonymous sites in plant mitochondrial DNA: The role of codon bias and RNA editing

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 479-491

  Sloan, Daniel B ^a   Taylor, Douglas R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Codon usage bias; Mitochondrial genome; mtDNA; Mutation bias; RNA editing; Substitution rate; Synonymous sites

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; CODON; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT; PLANT GENOME; REPRODUCIBILITY; RNA EDITING;

BASE COMPOSITION; CODON; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENOME, PLANT; PLANTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RNA EDITING; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 77954423296     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00239-010-9346-y     Document Type: Article

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