Synonymous and non-synonymous transitions/transversions vividly disclose purifying selection in Escherichia coli coding sequences
P. K. Beura, R. Aziz, P. Sen, S. Das, N. D. Namsa, E. Feil, S. S. Satapathy, S. K. Ray
The paper develops a method to estimate the ti/tv ratio in E. coli coding sequences by accounting for codon degeneracy and pretermination codons, revealing insights into purifying selection.
bioRxiv · Nov 3, 2022 · PreprintEvolutionary Biology