Gene functionality's influence on the second codon: A large-scale survey of second codon composition in three domains

Genomics

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 92-101

  Tang, Sen Lin ^a   Chang, Bill C H ^b   Halgamuge, Saman K ^c  

^a BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH CENTER   (Taiwan)

^b INSTITUTE OF PLANT AND MICROBIAL BIOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Directional mutation; Nucleotide frequency; Second codon

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; ALANINE; AMINO ACID; CYTOSINE; GENE PRODUCT; LIPOPROTEIN; LYSINE; PROLINE; SERINE; THREONINE; CODON; PROTEIN;

ARCHAEAL GENOME; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY METABOLISM; EUKARYOTE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SECOND CODON; ARCHAEON; BACTERIA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; GENOME; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACIDS; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; BASE COMPOSITION; CODON; EUKARYOTA; GENOME; MUTATION; PROTEINS; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN;

EID: 77955316177     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: 10898646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygeno.2010.04.001     Document Type: Article

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