Ancestral Inference and the Study of Codon Bias Evolution: Implications for Molecular Evolutionary Analyses of the Drosophila melanogaster Subgroup

Hiroshi Akashi; Piyush Goel; Anoop John

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0001065

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Ancestral Inference and the Study of Codon Bias Evolution: Implications for Molecular Evolutionary Analyses of the Drosophila melanogaster Subgroup

Hiroshi Akashi ,

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: akashi@psu.edu

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Evolutionary Genetics, Department of Biology, Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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Piyush Goel,

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Evolutionary Genetics, Department of Biology, Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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Anoop John

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Evolutionary Genetics, Department of Biology, Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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Ancestral Inference and the Study of Codon Bias Evolution: Implications for Molecular Evolutionary Analyses of the Drosophila melanogaster Subgroup

Hiroshi Akashi,
Piyush Goel,
Anoop John

Published: October 24, 2007
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0001065

About the Authors

Hiroshi Akashi

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: akashi@psu.edu

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Evolutionary Genetics, Department of Biology, Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Piyush Goel

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Evolutionary Genetics, Department of Biology, Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Anoop John

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Evolutionary Genetics, Department of Biology, Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HA PG. Analyzed the data: HA PG. Wrote the paper: HA. Other: Developed the C programs: AJ PG HA.

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