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A genetic code alteration is a phenotype diversity generator in the human pathogen Candida albicans.
PloS one - 3 Oct 2007
Miranda Isabel, Rocha Rita, Santos Maria C, Mateus Denisa D, Moura Gabriela R, Carreto Laura, Santos Manuel A S
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BACKGROUND: The discovery of genetic code alterations and expansions in both prokaryotes and eukaryotes abolished the hypothesis of a frozen and universal genetic code and exposed unanticipated flexibility in codon and amino acid assignments. It is now clear that codon identity alterations involve sense and non-sense codons and can occur in organisms with complex genomes and proteomes. However, the biological...
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