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Yeast as a model organism for studying the evolution of non-standard genetic codes.
Briefings in functional genomics & proteomics - 1 Apr 2004
Silva Raquel M, Miranda Isabel, Moura Gabriela, Santos Manuel A S
Abstract excerpt
During the last 30 years, a number of alterations to the standard genetic code have been uncovered both in prokaryotes and eukaryotic nuclear and mitochondrial genomes. But, the study of the evolutionary pathways and molecular mechanisms of codon identity redefinition has been largely ignored due to the assumption that non-standard genetic codes can only evolve through neutral evolutionary mechanisms and that...
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