Methylation of DNA is an epigenetic mechanism that influences patterns of gene expression.
DNA methylation marks contribute to adaptive phenotypic variation but are erased during …

Uncaria, a perennial vine from the Rubiaceae family, is a typical Chinese traditional
medicine. Currently, uncertainty exists over the Uncaria genus' evolutionary relationships …

Codon usage bias patterns have been broadly explored for many viruses. However, the
relative importance of mutation pressure and natural selection is still under debate. In the …

Microsatellites or simple sequence repeats (SSRs) have become the most popular source of
genetic markers, which are ubiquitously distributed in many eukaryotic and prokaryotic …

The presence, locations and composition of simple sequence repeats (SSRs) in Herpes
simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) genome were extracted and analyzed by using the software …

Spontaneous mutations are evolutionary engines as they generate variants for the
evolutionary downstream processes that give rise to speciation and adaptation. Single …

Background Gossypium thurberi is a wild diploid species that has been used to improve
cultivated allotetraploid cotton. G. thurberi belongs to D genome, which is an important wild …

We analyzed the dependence of the percent of highly immunogenic amino acid residues
included in B-cell epitopes of homologous proteins on the GC-content (G+ C) of genes …

The usage of cytosine in third codon positions of 22 complete Rubella virus genomes
(52.4%) is significantly higher than the usage of guanine (28.9%), adenine (6.9%) and uracil …

Посвящена описанию многочисленных биохимических аспектов мутационного
давления, биоинформатических методов его изучения и применению знаний о данных …