Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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9573285 | Biophysical Chemistry | 2005 | 9 Pages |
Abstract
Using our previous result that the C-G distribution in genomes is very broad, varying as a power law of the size of the block of genome considered, we examine the C-G distribution in genes themselves. We show that the widths of the C-G distributions for the genes of several simple organisms also vary as power laws. This suggests that the power law behavior gives a universal scaling whereby the distributions for the C-G content of the genes from all species are mapped onto a single function.
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Authors
Douglas Poland,