The codon adaptation index-a measure of directional synonymous codon usage bias, and its potential applications

The Neutral Theory of Molecular Evolution

1979 • 7,965 citations

Codon usage and tRNA content in unicellular and multicellular organisms.

1985 • 1,724 citations

Codon selection in yeast.

1982 • 1,580 citations

The neutral theory of molecular evolution

1984 • 1,459 citations

Codon usage in bacteria: correlation with gene expressivity

1982 • 1,227 citations

Codon usage in yeast: cluster analysis clearly differentiates highly and lowly expressed genes

1986 • 1,148 citations

Codon catalog usage is a genome strategy modulated for gene expressivity

1981 • 951 citations

The Mosaic Genome of Warm-Blooded Vertebrates

1985 • 887 citations

Correlation between the abundance of Escherichia coli transfer RNAs and the occurrence of the respective codons in its protein genes

1981 • 858 citations

Correlation between the abundance of yeast transfer RNAs and the occurrence of the respective codons in protein genes

1982 • 604 citations

Nucleotide sequence of an Escherichia coli chromosomal hemolysin

1985 • 572 citations

Codon usage in regulatory genes inEscherichia colidoes not reflect selection for ‘rare’ codons

1986 • 539 citations

Pseudogenes as a paradigm of neutral evolution

1981 • 526 citations

Molecular Evolutionary Genetics

1985 • 432 citations

Translation is a non-uniform process

1984 • 387 citations

The codon preference plot: graphic analysis of protein coding sequences and prediction of gene expression

1984 • 381 citations

Stoichiometry of subunits in the H+-ATPase complex of Escherichia coli.

1982 • 356 citations

Codon usage can affect efficiency of translation of genes inEscherichia coli

1984 • 290 citations

Escherichia coli ribosomes translate in vivo with variable rate.

1984 • 257 citations

The operen that encodes the sigma subunit of RNA polymerase also encodes ribosomal protein S21 and DNA primase in E. coli K12

1983 • 241 citations

Evidence for clonal population structure in Escherichia coli.

1984 • 187 citations

Codon usage and gene expression

1986 • 140 citations

Extraordinarily high evolutionary rate of pseudogenes: evidence for the presence of selective pressure against changes between synonymous codons.

1981 • 102 citations

Effect of distribution of unfavourable codons on the maximum rate of gene expression by an heterologous organism

1986 • 87 citations

Codon-defined ribosomal pausing inEscherichia colidetected by using thepyrEattenuator to probe the coupling between transcription and translation

1985 • 80 citations

Molecular evolution of bacteriophages: evidence of selection against the recognition sites of host restriction enzymes.

1986 • 78 citations

Selection pressures on codon usage in the complete genome of bacteriophage T7

1985 • 69 citations

A method for measuring the non-random bias of a codon usage table

1984 • 66 citations

Does the ‘non-coding’ strand code?

1985 • 20 citations

T7 and E.coli share homology for replication‐related gene products

1986 • 6 citations