Quantifying position-dependent codon usage bias

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1880-1893

  Hockenberry, Adam J ^a,b   Sirer, M Irmak ^a   Amaral, Luís A Nunes ^a,b   Jewett, Michael C ^a,b  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

coding sequence evolution; codon adaptation; codon usage bias; gene expression

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; ASPARTIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; GLYCINE; MESSENGER RNA; PHENYLALANINE; PROLINE; THREONINE; TRANSFER RNA; VALINE; BACTERIAL DNA; CODON; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CODON USAGE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREDICTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RNA STRUCTURE; START CODON; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CODON; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CODON; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84903729718     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msu126     Document Type: Article

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