Benefits of being biased!

Journal of Genetics

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 113-115

  Dey, Sutirth ^a  

^a JAWAHARLAL NEHRU CENTRE FOR ADVANCED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Alcohol dehydrogenase; Codon bias; Darwinian fitness; Drosophila melanogaster

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ALCOHOL DEHYDROGENASE; AMINO ACID; DNA FRAGMENT; LEUCINE; MESSENGER RNA; POLYPEPTIDE; TRANSFER RNA;

ACCURACY; ALCOHOL TOLERANCE; CODON; CYTOPLASM; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE POOL; GENETIC CODE; LD 50; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION GENETICS; RIBOSOME; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSLATION; THEORETICAL STUDY;

DARWINIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 9144258509     PISSN: 00221333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02729889     Document Type: Note

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