Evolution in regulatory regions rapidly compensates the cost of nonoptimal codon usage

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 2141-2151

  Amorós Moya, Dolors ^a,b   Bedhomme, Stéphanie ^c   Hermann, Marita ^b   Bravo, Ignacio G ^a,b  

^a Genomics and Health   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c Ciudad Politécnica de la Innovación   (Spain)

Author keywords

antibiotic resistance; codon usage bias; compensatory evolution; convergent evolution; lateral gene transfer; promoter evolution

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CODON USAGE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROMOTER REGION;

CODON; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 77955931732     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msq103     Document Type: Article

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