A genetic code alteration is a phenotype diversity generator in the human pathogen Candida albicans.

BACKGROUND: The discovery of genetic code alterations and expansions in both prokaryotes and eukaryotes abolished the hypothesis of a frozen and universal genetic code and exposed unanticipated flexibility in codon and amino acid assignments. It is now clear that codon identity alterations involve s...

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Main Authors: Isabel Miranda, Rita Rocha, Maria C Santos, Denisa D Mateus, Gabriela R Moura, Laura Carreto, Manuel A S Santos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2007-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC1991585?pdf=render