Biased gene conversion drives codon usage in human and precludes selection on translation efficiency
F. Pouyet, D. Mouchiroud, L. Duret, M. Semon
This study shows that GC-biased gene conversion, not translation efficiency, drives codon usage variation in human genes, explaining 81.3% of the variance.
eLife · Aug 15, 2017Peer-reviewedEvolutionary Biology