Codon usage patterns and adaptive evolution of marine unicellular cyanobacteria Synechococcus and Prochlorococcus

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 206-213

  Yu, Tonghai ^a   Li, Jinsong ^a   Yang, Yang ^b   Qi, Liu ^a   Chen, Biaobang ^a   Zhao, Fangqing ^c   Bao, Qiyu ^a   Wu, Jinyu ^a  

^a WENZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Adaptive evolution; Codon usage patterns; Prochlorococcus; Synechococcus

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BAYES THEOREM; CODON; DNA REPAIR; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; BAYES THEOREM; CODON; DNA REPAIR; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; PHYLOGENY; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

CYANOBACTERIA; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

EID: 83655167105     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2011.09.013     Document Type: Article

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