Nearly neutrality and the evolution of codon usage bias in eukaryotic genomes.

Abstract:

:Here I show that the mean codon usage bias of a genome, and of the lowly expressed genes in a genome, is largely similar across eukaryotes ranging from unicellular protists to vertebrates. Conversely, this bias in housekeeping genes and in highly expressed genes has a remarkable inverse relationship with species generation time that varies by more than four orders of magnitude. The relevance of these results to the nearly neutral theory of molecular evolution is discussed.

journal_name

Genetics

journal_title

Genetics

authors

Subramanian S

doi

10.1534/genetics.107.086405

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2008-04-01 00:00:00

pages

2429-32

issue

4

eissn

0016-6731

issn

1943-2631

pii

178/4/2429

journal_volume

178

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