Article
Comparison of translation loads for standard and alternative genetic codes.
BMC evolutionary biology - 14 Jun 2010
Sammet Stefanie Gabriele, Bastolla Ugo, Porto Markus
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The (almost) universality of the genetic code is one of the most intriguing properties of cellular life. Nevertheless, several variants of the standard genetic code have been observed, which differ in one or several of 64 codon assignments and occur mainly in mitochondrial genomes and in nuclear genomes of some bacterial and eukaryotic parasites. These variants are usually considered to be the result...
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