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Genetic Code Redundancy

Genetic Code Redundancy is the phenomenon in molecular biology where multiple codons encode the same amino acid during translation, thereby conferring robustness to point mutations in the DNA sequence without altering the resulting protein’s primary structure.

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Degeneracy Of The Genetic CodeGenetic Code Degeneracy

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The complete genome of an individual by massively parallel DNA sequencing

David A. Wheeler, Maithreyan Srinivasan, Yufeng Shen et al. · Nature · 2008 · 1.8K citations · Full text

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General Nature of the Genetic Code for Proteins

Francis Crick, Leslie Barnett, S. BRENNER et al. · Nature · 1961 · 1.4K citations

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Role of duplicate genes in genetic robustness against null mutations

Zhenglong Gu, Lars M. Steinmetz, Xun Gu et al. · Nature · 2003 · 946 citations

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Evolution of genetic redundancy

Martin A. Nowak, Maarten C. Boerlijst, Jonathan Cooke et al. · Nature · 1997 · 798 citations · Full text

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Virus Attenuation by Genome-Scale Changes in Codon Pair Bias

J. Robert Coleman, Dimitris Papamichail, Steven Skiena et al. · Science · 2008 · 743 citations · Full text

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Authors

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  1. CM
    Christian Michel

    UCLouvain, Belgium

    3 publications · 221 citations

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  2. AG
    Alan Garen

    Yale University, United States

    2 publications · 247 citations

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  3. EF
    Elena Fimmel

    Technische Hochschule Mannheim, Germany

    2 publications · 52 citations

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  4. HS
    Hervé Seligmann

    Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

    2 publications · 32 citations

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  5. DC
    David C. Krakauer

    Santa Fe Institute, United States

    2 publications · 49 citations

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Institutions

162

  1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    5 h-index

    23 publications

    1.1K citations

  2. University of Florida

    Gainesville, United States

    3 h-index

    6 publications

    293 citations

  3. University of British Columbia

    Vancouver, Canada

    3 h-index

    7 publications

    574 citations

  4. Yale University

    New Haven, United States

    3 h-index

    9 publications

    394 citations

  5. Santa Fe Institute

    Santa Fe, United States

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    107 citations

  6. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    3 h-index

    6 publications

    1.8K citations

  7. Scripps Research Institute

    San Diego, United States

    3 h-index

    5 publications

    316 citations

  8. Hebrew University of Jerusalem

    Jerusalem, Israel

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    56 citations

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  1. Journal of Theoretical Biology

    6 publications · 382 citations

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  2. Science

    6 publications · 1.8K citations

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  3. Nature

    6 publications · 5K citations

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  4. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    PNAS · 6 publications · 465 citations

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  5. Nucleic Acids Research

    4 publications · 257 citations

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