Codon bias in actin multigene families and effects on the reconstruction of phylogenetic relationships.

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Codon usage patterns and phylogenetic relationships in the actin multigene family have been analyzed for three dipteran species--Drosophila melanogaster, Bactrocera dorsalis, and Ceratitis capitata. In certain phylogenetic tree reconstructions, using synonymous distances, some gene relationships are altered due to a homogenization phenomenon. We present evidence to show that this homogenization phenomenon is due...

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