Preferred and avoided codon pairs in three domains of life

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Alternative synonymous codons are not used with equal frequencies. In addition, the contexts of codons – neighboring nucleotides and neighboring codons – can have certain patterns. The codon context can influence both translational a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Tenson Tanel, Tats Age, Remm Maido
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2008-10-01
Series:BMC Genomics
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/9/463