Codon optimality, bias and usage in translation and mRNA decay

G Hanson, J Coller - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2018 - nature.com
The advent of ribosome profiling and other tools to probe mRNA translation has revealed
that codon bias—the uneven use of synonymous codons in the transcriptome—serves as a …

Codon bias as a means to fine-tune gene expression

TEF Quax, NJ Claassens, D Söll, J van der Oost - Molecular cell, 2015 - cell.com
The redundancy of the genetic code implies that most amino acids are encoded by multiple
synonymous codons. In all domains of life, a biased frequency of synonymous codons is …

The 'effective number of codons' used in a gene

F Wright - Gene, 1990 - Elsevier
A simple measure is presented that quantifies how far the codon usage of a gene departs
from equal usage of synonymous codons. This measure of synonymous codon usage bias …

[HTML][HTML] An evolutionarily conserved mechanism for controlling the efficiency of protein translation

T Tuller, A Carmi, K Vestsigian, S Navon, Y Dorfan… - Cell, 2010 - cell.com
Recent years have seen intensive progress in measuring protein translation. However, the
contributions of coding sequences to the efficiency of the process remain unclear. Here, we …

Evolution of animal mitochondrial DNA: relevance for population biology and systematics

C Moritz, TE Dowling, WM Brown - Annual review of ecology and …, 1987 - JSTOR
In the past decade, mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis has become es-tablished as a
powerful tool for evolutionary studies of animals. These studies, recently reviewed by Avise …

[HTML][HTML] Evolution of genes and genomes on the Drosophila phylogeny

AG Clark, MB Eisen, DR Smith, CM Bergman, B Oliver… - Nature, 2007 - hal.science
Comparative analysis of multiple genomes in a phylogenetic framework dramatically
improves the precision and sensitivity of evolutionary inference, producing more robust …

Prochlorococcus, a Marine Photosynthetic Prokaryote of Global Significance

F Partensky, WR Hess, D Vaulot - Microbiology and molecular …, 1999 - Am Soc Microbiol
The minute photosynthetic prokaryote Prochlorococcus, which was discovered about 10
years ago, has proven exceptional from several standpoints. Its tiny size (0.5 to 0.7 μm in …

Disentangling sources of gene tree discordance in phylogenomic data sets: testing ancient hybridizations in Amaranthaceae sl

DF Morales-Briones, G Kadereit, DT Tefarikis… - Systematic …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Gene tree discordance in large genomic data sets can be caused by evolutionary processes
such as incomplete lineage sorting and hybridization, as well as model violation, and errors …

Accelerated evolution and Muller's rachet in endosymbiotic bacteria.

NA Moran - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 1996 - National Acad Sciences
Many bacteria live only within animal cells and infect hosts through cytoplasmic inheritance.
These endosymbiotic lineages show distinctive population structure, with small population …

Expression pattern and, surprisingly, gene length shape codon usage in Caenorhabditis, Drosophila, and Arabidopsis

L Duret, D Mouchiroud - Proceedings of the National …, 1999 - National Acad Sciences
We measured the expression pattern and analyzed codon usage in 8,133, 1,550, and 2,917
genes, respectively, from Caenorhabditis elegans, Drosophila melanogaster, and …