Causes and Implications of Codon Usage Bias in RNA Viruses

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Belalov, Ilya S ^a   Lukashev, Alexander N ^a,b  

^a CHUMAKOV INSTITUTE OF POLIOMYELITIS AND VIRAL ENCEPHALITIDES   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DINUCLEOTIDE; ISOLEUCINE; LEUCINE; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; CODON; CODON USAGE; CODON USAGE BIAS; COMPUTER MODEL; CPG ISLAND; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ALGORITHM; INNATE IMMUNITY; MUTATION PRESSURE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RNA VIRUS; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS MUTATION; VIRUS TRANSCRIPTION;

BASE COMPOSITION; CODON; IMMUNITY, INNATE; RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 84874515523     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0056642     Document Type: Article

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