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Selected codon usage bias in members of the class Mollicutes.
Gene - 1 Mar 2011
Iriarte Andrés, Baraibar Juan Diego, Romero Héctor, Musto Héctor
Abstract excerpt
Mollicutes are parasitic microorganisms mainly characterized by small cell sizes, reduced genomes and great A and T mutational bias. We analyzed the codon usage patterns of the completely sequenced genomes of bacteria that belong to this class. We found that for many organisms not only mutational bias but also selection has a major effect on codon usage. Through a comparative perspective and based on three widely...
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