Codon usage bias in human cytomegalovirus and its biological implication

Gene

Volumn 545, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 5-14

  Hu, Changyuan ^a   Chen, Jing ^a   Ye, Lulu ^b   Chen, Renpin ^a   Zhang, Lifang ^b   Xue, Xiangyang ^b  

^a THE FIRST AFFILIATED HOSPITAL OF WENZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b WENZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Codon usage bias; Host relating protein; Human herpesvirus 5

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE; CODON;

ARTICLE; CODING; CODON; CODON USAGE; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; GENE; GENE FUNCTION; GENOME; HUMAN CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; GENETICS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; MUTATION; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS GENOME;

HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 5;

CODON; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; GENES, VIRAL; GENOME, VIRAL; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDES;

EID: 84901199688     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: 18790038     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2014.05.018     Document Type: Article

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