Codon usage bias: Causative factors, quantification methods and genome-wide patterns: With emphasis on insect genomes

Biological Reviews

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 49-61

  Behura, Susanta K ^a   Severson, David W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

Codon bias; Codon bias index; Codon context; Insect genomes; Mutational bias; Synonymous codons; Translational selection

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTOME;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CODON; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOME; INSECT;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CODON; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME; INSECTS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ANOPHELES (GENUS); APIS MELLIFERA; ARTHROPODA; EUKARYOTA; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; NASONIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 84871755351     PISSN: 14647931     EISSN: 1469185X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-185X.2012.00242.x     Document Type: Article

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