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| Keywords: Codon Bias.jpg en Simplified diagram showing codon bias in hydropathy - molar volume space The strongest components bias for the encoding of anino acid residues are in order C in 2nd position NCN C2 -> small size medium hydropathy U in 2nd position NUN U2 -> average size hydrophobic A in 2nd position NAN A2 -> average size hydrophilic U in 1st position UNN U1 -> not hydrophilic where N is any of A C G U The y-axis is accurate cubic Angstroms but the x-axis could have some error from estimates of hydropathy Redrawn from Figure 4 in http //www complexity org au/ci/vol01/fullen01/html/ which attributes the graph to Yang M M W J Coleman and D C Youvan 1990 In Reaction Centers of Photosynthetic Bacteria M -E Michel-Beyerle Ed Springer-Verlag Germany p209-218; listed by Google at http //books google com/books id LapTAAAACAAJ dq 22Reaction+Centers+of+Photosynthetic+Bacteria 22 More complex diagrams illustrating the codon bias can be found on Commons at http //commons wikimedia org/wiki/Image Codon_Bias jpg http //commons wikimedia org/wiki/Image Genetic_Code JPG http //commons wikimedia org/wiki/Image NEWVENN JPG doug youvan doug youvan 2008-05-31 Genetics | ||||
