Codon equilibrium II: Its use in estimating silent-substitution rates.

doi:10.1007/BF02100092

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Codon equilibrium II: Its use in estimating silent-substitution rates.

Journal of molecular evolution - 1 Jan 2000

Wilbur W J

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We study the equilibrium in the use of synonymous codons by eukaryotic organisms and find five equations involving substitution rates that we believe embody the important implications of equilibrium for the process of silent substitution. We then combine these five equations with additional crite...

Topics

Animals
Biological Evolution
Codon
DNA
Eukaryotic Cells
Genetic Code
Humans
Muridae
Mutation
Probability
RNA, Messenger

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