The problem of counting sites in the estimation of the synonymous and nonsynonymous substitution rates: implications for the correlation between the synonymous substitution rate and codon usage bias.

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Published in Genetics on November 01, 2003

Authors

Nicolas Bierne1, Adam Eyre-Walker

Author Affiliations

1: Centre for the Study of Evolution and School of Biological Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QG, United Kingdom.

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