A novel nuclear genetic code alteration in yeasts and the evolution of codon reassignment in eukaryotes

Genome Research

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 945-955

  Mühlhausen, Stefanie ^a   Findeisen, Peggy ^a   Plessmann, Uwe ^a   Urlaub, Henning ^a,b   Kollmar, Martin ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; AMINO ACID TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; LEUCINE; PROTEOME; TRANSFER RNA; CODON;

ANTICODON; ARTICLE; CODON; EUKARYOTE; GENETIC CODE; NONHUMAN; PACHYSOLEN TANNOPHILUS; PHYLOGENY; POLYPHYLY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOMICS; RNA SEQUENCE; YEAST; BUDDING YEAST; CELL NUCLEUS; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

BASE SEQUENCE; CELL NUCLEUS; CODON; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC CODE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; RNA, TRANSFER; SACCHAROMYCETALES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

EID: 84976870547     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.200931.115     Document Type: Article

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