Evolutionary BiologybioRxiv
Selection shapes synonymous stop codon use in mammals
C. Seoighe, S. J. Kiniry, A. Peters…·H. Yang
The paper estimates that 57% of mammalian genes are under purifying selection for stop codon preference, with UGA codons being more conserved and associated with specific gene characteristics.
DOI 10.1007/s00239-020-09957-x