Selection Shapes Synonymous Stop Codon Use in Mammals
Selection Shapes Synonymous Stop Codon Use in Mammals is a scholarly work by Cathal Seoighe, published in 2020 in ''Journal of Molecular Evolution''. The main subjects of the publication include gene, selection (genetic algorithm), RNA sequencing, genetics, evolutionary biology, Nonsynonymous substitution, molecular evolution, Synonymous substitution, stop codon, silent mutation, biology, codon usage bias, purifying selection, coding region, RNA splicing, phylogenetic tree, and ribosome. The results suggest that the preference for UGA stop codons found in many multicellular eukaryotes is selective rather than mutational in origin.