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SUBMITTER: Emery LR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3030896 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Emery Laura R LR Sharp Paul M PM
Biology letters 20100901 1
Patterns of codon usage have been extensively studied among Bacteria and Eukaryotes, but there has been little investigation of species from the third domain of life, the Archaea. Here, we examine the nature of codon usage bias in a methanogenic archaeon, Methanococcus maripaludis. Genome-wide patterns of codon usage are dominated by a strong A + T bias, presumably largely reflecting mutation patterns. Nevertheless, there is variation among genes in the use of a subset of putatively translationa ...[more]