Synonymous codon usage, GC 3, and evolutionary patterns across plastomes of three pooid model species: Emerging grass genome models for monocots

Molecular Biotechnology

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 116-128

  Sablok, Gaurav ^a   Nayak, Kinshuk Chandra ^b   Vazquez, Franck ^c   Tatarinova, Tatiana V ^d  

^a HUAZHONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF LIFE SCIENCES   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GLAMORGAN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brachypodium distachyon; Correspondence analysis; GC 3 biology; Hordeum vulgare subsp. vulgare; Mutational bias; Triticum aestivum

Indexed keywords

BRACHYPODIUM DISTACHYON; CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; HORDEUM VULGARE; MUTATIONAL BIAS; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

CHLOROPHYLL;

GENES;

VEGETABLE PROTEIN; CYTOSINE; GUANINE; PLANT DNA;

ARTICLE; CHLOROPLAST GENOME; CODON; CODON USAGE; GRASS; HYDROPHOBICITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MONOCOT; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PLANT GENOME; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; CELL NUCLEUS; CHLOROPLAST; CHLOROPLAST GENE; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PLANT GENE; POACEAE;

BRACHYPODIUM DISTACHYON; HORDEUM VULGARE; HORDEUM VULGARE SUBSP. VULGARE; LILIOPSIDA; POACEAE; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

CELL NUCLEUS; CHLOROPLASTS; CODON; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CYTOSINE; DNA, PLANT; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, CHLOROPLAST; GENES, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; GUANINE; MODELS, GENETIC; POACEAE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 84856020525     PISSN: 10736085     EISSN: 15590305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12033-011-9383-9     Document Type: Article

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