Translational selection of genes coding for perfectly conserved proteins among three mosquito vectors

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1535-1542

  Rodriguez, Olaf ^a   Singh, Brajendra K ^a   Severson, David W ^a   Behura, Susanta K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

Codon bias; Codon context; Selection; Translational efficiency; Vector mosquitoes

Indexed keywords

AEDES AEGYPTI; AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ARTICLE; CODON USAGE; CULEX QUINQUEFASCIATUS; DENGUE VIRUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; LYMPHATIC FILARIASIS; MALARIA; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONSERVATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSLATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIMULATION; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

AEDES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; BASE COMPOSITION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CODON; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CULEX; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; INSECT PROTEINS; INSECT VECTORS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS;

EID: 84865395976     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: 15677257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2012.06.005     Document Type: Article

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