Complex Mutation and Weak Selection together Determined the Codon Usage Bias in Bryophyte Mitochondrial Genomes

Journal of Integrative Plant Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1100-1108

  Wang, Bin ^a   Liu, Jing ^a   Jin, Liang ^a   Feng, Xue Ying ^a   Chen, Jian Qun ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; NUCLEOTIDE; TRANSFER RNA;

BRYOPHYTE; GENOME; MITOCHONDRION; MUTATION; PLANT;

ARTICLE; CODON; CYTOLOGY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; MITOCHONDRION; MOSS; MUTATION; PLANT GENE; PLANT GENOME; RICE;

AMINO ACIDS; BASE COMPOSITION; BRYOPHYTA; CODON; GENES, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENES, PLANT; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENOME, PLANT; MITOCHONDRIA; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDES; ORYZA SATIVA; RNA, TRANSFER; SELECTION, GENETIC;

ALGAE; BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; CHARA; CHARA VULGARIS; EMBRYOPHYTA; VIRIDIPLANTAE;

EID: 78649568720     PISSN: 16729072     EISSN: 17447909     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7909.2010.00998.x     Document Type: Article

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