title: Universal scaling of the C--G distribution of genes.
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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA. poland@jhu.edu
authors.forename: Douglas
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Poland
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D001482:Base Composition; D019295:Computational Biology; D003596:Cytosine / Q000737:chemistry*; D004247:DNA / Q000737:chemistry*; D016678:Genome; D006147:Guanine / Q000737:chemistry*; D016480:Helicobacter pylori / Q000235:genetics; D011019:Pneumonia, Mycoplasma / Q000235:genetics; D012283:Rickettsia prowazekii / Q000235:genetics; D013045:Species Specificity; D014210:Treponema pallidum / Q000235:genetics
chemical_list: D006147:Guanine; D003596:Cytosine; D004247:DNA