title: Compositional correlations in the chicken genome.
abstract: This paper analyses the compositional correlations that hold in the chicken genome. Significant linear correlations were found among the regions studied-coding sequences (and their first, second, and third codon positions), flanking regions (5' and 3'), and introns-as is the case in the human genome. We found that these compositional correlations are not limited to global GC levels but even extend to individual bases. Furthermore, an analysis of 1037 coding sequences has confirmed a correlation among GC(3), GC(2), and GC(1). The implications of these results are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Laboratorio de Organización y Evolución del Genoma, Sección Bioquímica, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Musto
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Romero
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Zavala
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Bernardi
mesh_terms: D020413:3' Untranslated Regions / Q000235:genetics; D020121:5' Untranslated Regions / Q000235:genetics; D000818:Animals; D020029:Base Pairing; D002645:Chickens / Q000235:genetics*; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D016678:Genome; D015894:Genome, Human; D006801:Humans
chemical_list: D020413:3' Untranslated Regions; D020121:5' Untranslated Regions