Widespread selection for local RNA secondary structure in coding regions of bacterial genes.

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Published in Genome Res on September 01, 2003

Authors

Luba Katz1, Christopher B Burge

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1: Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.

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