Codon usage in Caenorhabditis elegans: delineation of translational selection and mutational biases.

doi:10.1093/nar/22.13.2437

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Codon usage in Caenorhabditis elegans: delineation of translational selection and mutational biases.

Nucleic acids research - 11 Jul 1994

Stenico M, Lloyd A T, Sharp P M

Abstract excerpt

Synonymous codon usage varies considerably among Caenorhabditis elegans genes. Multivariate statistical analyses reveal a single major trend among genes. At one end of the trend lie genes with relatively unbiased codon usage. These genes appear to be lowly expressed, and their patterns of codon u...

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Animals
Base Sequence
Biological Evolution
Caenorhabditis elegans
Codon
Molecular Sequence Data
Mutation
Protein Biosynthesis

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