Article
Rapid divergence of codon usage patterns within the rice genome.
BMC evolutionary biology - 8 Feb 2007
Wang Huai-Chun, Hickey Donal A
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Synonymous codon usage varies widely between genomes, and also between genes within genomes. Although there is now a large body of data on variations in codon usage, it is still not clear if the observed patterns reflect the effects of positive Darwinian selection acting at the level of translational efficiency or whether these patterns are due simply to the effects of mutational bias. In this study,...
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