DNA variation in the metallothionein genes in wild rice Oryza rufipogon: relationship between DNA sequence polymorphism, codon bias and gene expression.

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This study examines the relationship between DNA sequence variation and level of gene expression in four metallothionein genes from wild rice Oryza rufipogon. The nucleotide diversity was 0.0028 to 0.0117 over the entire coding and non-coding region, and it was negatively correlated with gene expression for three type 2 metallothionein genes. In contrast, codon bias and percent of preferred codons correlated...

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