Novel Ciliate Genetic Code Variants Including the Reassignment of All Three Stop Codons to Sense Codons inCondylostoma magnum
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Novel Ciliate Genetic Code Variants Including the Reassignment of All Three Stop Codons to Sense Codons in Condylostoma magnum
mRNA translation in many ciliates utilizes variant genetic codes where stop codons are reassigned to specify amino acids. To characterize the repertoire of ciliate genetic codes, we analyzed ciliate transcriptomes from marine environments. Using codon substitution frequencies in ciliate protein-coding genes and their orthologs, we inferred the genetic codes of 24 ciliate species. Nine did not m...
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عنوان ژورنال: Molecular Biology and Evolution
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0737-4038,1537-1719
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msw166