Article
Compositional patterns in vertebrate genomes: conservation and change in evolution.
Journal of molecular evolution - 1 Jan 2000
Bernardi G, Mouchiroud D, Gautier C, Bernardi G
Abstract excerpt
The evolution of vertebrate genomes can be investigated by analyzing their regional compositional patterns, namely the compositional distributions of large DNA fragments (in the 30-100-kb size range), of coding sequences, and of their different codon positions. This approach has shown the existence of two evolutionary modes. In the conservative mode, compositional patterns are maintained over long times (many...
Topics
- Animals
- Base Composition
- Biological Evolution
- Codon
- DNA
- Mammals
- Models, Genetic
- Mutation
- Selection, Genetic
- Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
- Vertebrates
