Codon usage bias from tRNA's point of view: Redundancy, specialization, and efficient decoding for translation optimization
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Codon usage bias from tRNA's point of view: redundancy, specialization, and efficient decoding for translation optimization.
The selection-mutation-drift theory of codon usage plays a major role in the theory of molecular evolution by explaining the co-evolution of codon usage bias and tRNA content in the framework of translation optimization. Because most studies have focused only on codon usage, we analyzed the tRNA gene pool of 102 bacterial species. We show that as minimal generation times get shorter, the genome...
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عنوان ژورنال: Genome Research
سال: 2004
ISSN: 1088-9051
DOI: 10.1101/gr.2896904