Selective advantages created by codon ambiguity allowed for the evolution of an alternative genetic code inCandidaspp.
Open Access
- 1 February 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Molecular Microbiology
- Vol. 31 (3) , 937-947
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01233.x
Abstract
Several species of the genus Candida decode the standard leucine CUG codon as serine. This and other deviations from the standard genetic code in both nuclear and mitochondrial genomes invalidate the...Keywords
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