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Nonneutral GC3 and retroelement codon mimicry in Phytophthora.
Journal of molecular evolution - 1 Oct 2006
Jiang Rays H Y, Govers Francine
Abstract excerpt
Phytophthora is a genus entirely comprised of destructive plant pathogens. It belongs to the Stramenopila, a unique branch of eukaryotes, phylogenetically distinct from plants, animals, or fungi. Phytophthora genes show a strong preference for usage of codons ending with G or C (high GC3). The presence of high GC3 in genes can be utilized to differentiate coding regions from noncoding regions in the genome. We...
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