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Mutation bias is the driving force of codon usage in the Gallus gallus genome.
DNA research : an international journal for rapid publication of reports on genes and genomes - 1 Dec 2011
Rao Yousheng, Wu Guozuo, Wang Zhangfeng, Chai Xuewen, Nie Qinghua, Zhang Xiquan
Abstract excerpt
Synonymous codons are used with different frequencies both among species and among genes within the same genome and are controlled by neutral processes (such as mutation and drift) as well as by selection. Up to now, a systematic examination of the codon usage for the chicken genome has not been performed. Here, we carried out a whole genome analysis of the chicken genome by the use of the relative synonymous...
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