Codon usage bias in prokaryotic pyrimidine-ending codons is associated with the degeneracy of the encoded amino acids
Synonymous codons are unevenly distributed among genes, a phenomenon termed codon usage bias. Understanding the patterns of codon bias and the forces shaping them is a major step towards elucidating the adaptive advantage codon choice can confer at the level of individual genes and organisms. Here,...
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Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2012
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Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3424539/ |