codon usage
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcodonandusage
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codon
noun[C]
uk/ˈkəʊ.dɒn/us/ˈkoʊ.dɑːn/
a set of three nucleotides that together form a unit of genetic code in a DNA or ...
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usage
noun
uk/ˈjuː.sɪdʒ/us/ˈjuː.sɪdʒ/
the way a particular word in a language, or a language in general, ...
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For a number of organisms, evidence suggests that biasedcodonusagereflects the action of selection to maximize translational efficiency and accuracy.
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Contrary to intuition, levels of silent-site diversity can increase with the strength of selection acting oncodonusage.
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Furthermore, simple models can be expanded to incorporate heterogeneity in the parameters determiningcodonusage, in order to examine how expected relationships are affected.
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We also examined the pattern ofcodonusagein the four studied species.
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Therefore, it seems evident that there is a large variation incodonusageamong the sequences.
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Significance of nucleotide sequence alignments : a method for random sequence permutation that preserves dinucleotide andcodonusage.
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The analysis of polymorphism provides a potentially powerful method for estimating the strength of selection oncodonusage.
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According to the selective model, only synonymous sites undergoing selection oncodonusageshould be affected by recombination rate.
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Comparative analysis of expressed sequences reveals a conserved pattern of optimalcodonusagein plants.
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These results have implications for the analysis ofcodonusageat greater than 2-fold degenerate amino acids.
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This representscodonusagefor 2-fold degenerate amino acids.
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This new model is used to explore the relationships between synonymouscodonusage, nucleotide site diversity and the rate of substitution.
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The rate of synonymous substitution in enterobacterial genes is inversely related tocodonusagebias.
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Therefore, we concluded that there is a large variation incodonusageamong the sequences.
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Maximizing transcription efficiency causescodonusagebias.
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However, when selection oncodonusageis very weak, the effects of regional variation in recombination rate will be hard to detect (and are absent for neutral sites).
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Codonusagein yeast : cluster-analysis clearly differentiates highly and lowly expressed genes.
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Codonusagein yeast : cluster analysis clearly differentiates highly and lowly expressed genes.
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We can therefore expect more realistic models ofcodonusageto be developed, taking into account both optimal codon usage and linkage between the genome sequences.
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