Genes optimized by evolution for accurate and fast translation encode in Archaea and Bacteria a broad and characteristic spectrum of protein functions.

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Published in BMC Genomics on November 04, 2010

Authors

Conrad von Mandach1, Rainer Merkl

Author Affiliations

1: University of Hagen, Germany.

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