Codon Usage Optimization in the Prokaryotic Tree of Life: How Synonymous Codons Are Differentially Selected in Sequence Domains with Different Expression Levels and Degrees of Conservation.

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Prokaryote genomes exhibit a wide range of GC contents and codon usages, both resulting from an interaction between mutational bias and natural selection. In order to investigate the basis underlying specific codon changes, we performed a comprehensive analysis of 29 different prokaryote families. The analysis of core gene sets with increasing ancestries in each family lineage revealed that the codon usages...

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