Evolution of codon usage bias in Drosophila
Powell J, Moriyama E. Evolution of codon usage bias in Drosophila. Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America 1997, 94: 7784-7790. PMID: 9223264, PMCID: PMC33704, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.94.15.7784.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsCodon usage biasHigher codon usage biasUsage biasBiased genesMutation biasSynonymous sitesCodon biasAmino acidsLow codon usage biasDrosophila genesDNA evolutionEffect of recombinationSmall geneIndividual amino acidsLong genesSynonymous substitutionsTRNA poolPreferred codonsSynonymous polymorphismWobble positionDrosophilaSame nucleotideSelection hypothesisGenesLines of evidence