NALT

Preferred term

codon usage

Topic

The frequency of occurrence, in a specific organism's DNA sequence, of one of several potential synonymous codons that code for a particular amino acid. Frequently, there is a nonrandom pattern (bias) in the usage of a particular codon or codons over other synonymous codons.

codons

codon bias
codon preference
codon usage bias
codon usage pattern
synonymous codon usage

Field 001 in MARC Authority Format

95128

Spanish

uso del codón

URI

https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/336379

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Created 2/19/20, last modified 10/29/20