Genome-wide patterns of codon bias are shaped by natural selection in the purple sea urchin, strongylocentrotus purpuratus

G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1069-1083

  Kober, Kord M ^a,b   Pogson, Grant H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Antagonistic; Codon bias; mRNA stability; Mutational bias; Pleiotropy; Sea urchin; Translational selection

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL; ANTAGONISTIC PLEIOTROPY; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; CODON; CODON BIAS; CODON USAGE; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA FLANKING REGION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; GENOME; INTRON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MRNA STABILITY; MUTATION; MUTATIONAL BIAS; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RNA STABILITY; SEA URCHIN; STRONGYLOCENTROTUS PURPURATUS; TRANSLATIONAL SELECTION;

ECHINOIDEA; STRONGYLOCENTROTUS PURPURATUS;

EID: 84883257840     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21601836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/g3.113.005769     Document Type: Article

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