The evolution of word composition in metazoan promoter sequence.

The field of molecular evolution provides many examples of the principle that molecular differences between species contain information about evolutionary history. One surprising case can be found in the frequency of short words in DNA: more closely related species have more similar word composition...

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Main Authors: Eliot C Bush, Bruce T Lahn
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2006-11-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC1630712?pdf=render