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Evolution: The Case of the Glyceraldehyde-3-Phosphate Dehydrogenase Gene

Sujay Chattopadhyay, Satyabrata Sahoo, Jayprokas Chakrabarti

physics.bio-pharXiv:physics/0006055

Abstract

The enzyme Glyceraldehyde-3-Phosphate Dehydrogenase (GAPDH) catalyses the decomposition of glucose. The gene that produces the GAPDH is therefore present in a wide class of organisms. We show that for this gene the average value of the fluctuations in nucleotide distribution in the codons, normalized to strand bias, provides a reasonable measure of how the gene has evolved in time.

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