Genome-wide analysis reveals diverged patterns of codon bias, gene expression, and rates of sequence evolution in Picea gene families

Genome Biology and Evolution

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1002-1015

  De La Torre, Amanda R ^a   Lin, Yao Cheng ^b   Van De Peer, Yves ^b,c   Ingvarsson, Pär K ^a,d  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^d Umea Plant Science Center   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Codon usage; Gene duplication; Gene expression; Sequence divergence; Single copy genes

Indexed keywords

CODON; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

CODON; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; GENOMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PLANT GENOME; SPRUCE;

CODON; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME, PLANT; GENOMICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PICEA; PLANT PROTEINS;

EID: 84942242952     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17596653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evv044     Document Type: Article

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