Analysis of synonymous codon usage patterns in sixty-four different bivalve species

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Volumn 2015, Issue 12, 2015, Pages

  Gerdol, Marco ^a   De Moro, Gianluca ^a   Venier, Paola ^b   Pallavicini, Alberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bivalve omics; Bivalves; Codon usage bias; Next generation sequencing

Indexed keywords

BIVALVE; CODON USAGE; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES;

EID: 84983198158     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21678359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.1520     Document Type: Article

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