BMC Evolutionary Biology

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Codon usage is associated with the evolutionary age of genes in metazoan genomes

Yosef Prat1, Menachem Fromer1, Nathan Linial1,2 and Michal Linial2,3*

Author Affiliations

1 School of Computer Science and Engineering, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, 91904, Israel

2 Sudarsky Center for Computational Biology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, 91904, Israel

3 Deptartment of Biological Chemistry, Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, 91904, Israel

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BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009, 9:285 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-9-285

Published: 8 December 2009

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Additional file 1:

Age-dependent codon usage for human genes. This file depicts the age-dependent codon usage for human genes, for each of the 18 degenerately coded amino acids (denoted by one letter codes).

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Additional file 2:

Age-dependent codon usage for mouse genes. This file shows the age-dependent codon usage for mouse genes, for each of the 18 degenerately coded amino acids.

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Additional file 3:

Age-dependent codon usage for fly genes. This file portrays the age-dependent codon usage for fly genes, for each of the 18 degenerately coded amino acids.

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