[HTML][HTML] A new codon adaptation metric predicts vertebrate body size and tendency to protein disorder

CA Weibel, AL Wheeler, JE James, SM Willis, J Masel - elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
The nearly neutral theory of molecular evolution posits variation among species in the
effectiveness of selection. In an idealized model, the census population size determines …

Standard codon substitution models overestimate purifying selection for nonstationary data

BD Kaehler, VB Yap, GA Huttley - Genome biology and …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Estimation of natural selection on protein-coding sequences is a key comparative genomics
approach for de novo prediction of lineage-specific adaptations. Selective pressure is …

The systematic codon usage bias has an important effect on genetic adaption in native species

AS Panja - Gene, 2024 - Elsevier
Random mutations increase genetic variety and natural selection enhances adaption over
generations. Codon usage biases (CUB) provide clues about the genome adaptation …

Effective population size does not predict codon usage bias in mammals

MD Kessler, MD Dean - Ecology and evolution, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Synonymous codons are not used at equal frequency throughout the genome, a
phenomenon termed codon usage bias (CUB). It is often assumed that interspecific variation …

Codon usage bias in animals: disentangling the effects of natural selection, effective population size, and GC-biased gene conversion

N Galtier, C Roux, M Rousselle… - Molecular biology …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Selection on codon usage bias is well documented in a number of microorganisms. Whether
codon usage is also generally shaped by natural selection in large organisms, despite their …

Life history traits, protein evolution, and the nearly neutral theory in amniotes

E Figuet, B Nabholz, M Bonneau… - Molecular biology …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
The nearly neutral theory of molecular evolution predicts that small populations should
accumulate deleterious mutations at a faster rate than large populations. The analysis of …

Phylogenetic analysis of mutational robustness based on codon usage supports that the standard genetic code does not prefer extreme environments

Á Radványi, Á Kun - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
The mutational robustness of the genetic code is rarely discussed in the context of biological
diversity, such as codon usage and related factors, often considered as independent of the …

Genes and sites under adaptation at the phylogenetic scale also exhibit adaptation at the population-genetic scale

T Latrille, N Rodrigue, N Lartillot - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Adaptation in protein-coding sequences can be detected from multiple sequence alignments
across species or alternatively by leveraging polymorphism data within a population. Across …

GC-biased gene conversion conceals the prediction of the nearly neutral theory in avian genomes

P Bolívar, L Guéguen, L Duret, H Ellegren, CF Mugal - Genome Biology, 2019 - Springer
Background The nearly neutral theory of molecular evolution predicts that the efficacy of
natural selection increases with the effective population size. This prediction has been …

Adaptive protein evolution in animals and the effective population size hypothesis

N Galtier - PLoS genetics, 2016 - journals.plos.org
The rate at which genomes adapt to environmental changes and the prevalence of adaptive
processes in molecular evolution are two controversial issues in current evolutionary …