Analysis of synonymous codon usage patterns in sixty-four different bivalve species

Synonymous codon usage bias (CUB) is a defined as the non-random usage of codons encoding the same amino acid across different genomes. This phenomenon is common to all organisms and the real weight of the many factors involved in its shaping still remains to be fully determined. So far, relatively...

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Main Authors: Marco Gerdol, Gianluca De Moro, Paola Venier, Alberto Pallavicini
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PeerJ Inc. 2015-12-01
Series:PeerJ
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Online Access:https://peerj.com/articles/1520.pdf