Article
Differential selective constraints shaping codon usage pattern of housekeeping and tissue-specific homologous genes of rice and arabidopsis.
DNA research : an international journal for rapid publication of reports on genes and genomes - 1 Dec 2008
Mukhopadhyay Pamela, Basak Surajit, Ghosh Tapash Chandra
Abstract excerpt
Intra-genomic variation between housekeeping and tissue-specific genes has always been a study of interest in higher eukaryotes. To-date, however, no such investigation has been done in plants. Availability of whole genome expression data for both rice and Arabidopsis has made it possible to examine the evolutionary forces in shaping codon usage pattern in both housekeeping and tissue-specific genes in plants. In...
Topics
- Arabidopsis
- Codon
- Evolution, Molecular
- Gene Dosage
- Gene Expression Regulation, Plant
- Genes, Plant
- Mutation
- Oryza
- Plant Proteins
- RNA, Messenger
- RNA, Transfer
- Selection, Genetic