Origin and evolution of genes and genomes. Crucial role of triplet expansions

Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 201-210

  Frenkel, Zakharia M ^a,b   Trifonov, Edward N ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b ORT BRAUDE COLLEGE   (Israel)

^c MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Codon usage; Gene evolution; Repeats; Triplet expansion

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CODON USAGE; DNA STRUCTURE; GENE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; POINT MUTATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE DATABASE; TANDEM REPEAT; TRIPLET EXPANSION;

BASE SEQUENCE; CODON; DATABASES, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FOSSILS; GENOME; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT EXPANSION;

EID: 84863865655     PISSN: 07391102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07391102.2012.677771     Document Type: Article

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