The Selective Advantage of Synonymous Codon Usage Bias in Salmonella

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Brandis, Gerrit ^a   Hughes, Diarmaid ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELONGATION FACTOR TU; MESSENGER RNA; AMINO ACID; CODON;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CODON USAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; SALMONELLA; SYNONYMOUS CODON USAGE BIAS; TUFA GENE; TUFB GENE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; CODON; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMINO ACIDS; CODON; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; SALMONELLA; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84962382944     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1005926     Document Type: Article

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