Codon usage is associated with the evolutionary age of genes in metazoan genomes

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Codon usage may vary significantly between different organisms and between genes within the same organism. Several evolutionary processes have been postulated to be the predominant determinants of codon usage: selection, mutation, an...

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Main Authors: Linial Nathan, Fromer Menachem, Prat Yosef, Linial Michal
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2009-12-01
Series:BMC Evolutionary Biology
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/9/285