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GC3 biology in corn, rice, sorghum and other grasses.
BMC genomics - 16 May 2010
Tatarinova Tatiana V, Alexandrov Nickolai N, Bouck John B, Feldmann Kenneth A
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The third, or wobble, position in a codon provides a high degree of possible degeneracy and is an elegant fault-tolerance mechanism. Nucleotide biases between organisms at the wobble position have been documented and correlated with the abundances of the complementary tRNAs. We and others have noticed a bias for cytosine and guanine at the third position in a subset of transcripts within a single...
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