Brian R. Morton

Substitution rate comparisons between grasses and palms: synonymous rate differences at the nuclear gene Adh parallel rate differences at the plastid gene rbcL.

Brandon S. Gaut, Brian R. Morton, Bonnie C. McCaig et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1996 · 818 citations · Full text

Plant Genetics, Comparative Genomics, Genetics +17

Multifaceted biological insights from a draft genome sequence of the tobacco hornworm moth, Manduca sexta

Michael R. Kanost, Estela L. Arrese, Xiaolong Cao et al. · Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology · 2016 · 241 citations · Full text

Biology, Phylogenetics, Molecular Ecology +13

Selection on the codon bias of chloroplast and cyanelle genes in different plant and algal lineages

Brian R. Morton · Journal of Molecular Evolution · 1998 · 145 citations

Biology, Plant Molecular Biology, Plant Genetics +13

The Role of Context-Dependent Mutations in Generating Compositional and Codon Usage Bias in Grass Chloroplast DNA

Brian R. Morton · Journal of Molecular Evolution · 2003 · 136 citations

Biology, Plant Genetics, Genetics +9

The Evolution of Chloroplast RNA Editing

Michael Tillich, Pascal Lehwark, Brian R. Morton et al. · Molecular Biology and Evolution · 2006 · 133 citations · Full text

Biology, Plant Biology, Rna Molecule +15