Brachypodium distachyon

Patterns of synonymous codon usage bias in the model grass Brachypodium distachyon

H. Liu, Huang, Y., Du, X., Chen, Z., Zeng, X., Chen, Y., and Zhang, H., Patterns of synonymous codon usage bias in the model grass Brachypodium distachyon, vol. 11, pp. 4695-4706, 2012.

Brachypodium distachyon has been proposed as a new model for the temperate grass because it is related to the major cereal grain species (such as wheat, barley, oat, maize, rice, and sorghum) and many forage and turf species. In this study, a multivariate statistical analysis was performed to investigate the characteristics of codon bias and the main factors affecting synonymous codon usage in Brachypodium. We found that low- and high-GC content genes with different codon usage occur frequently in the genome.

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