Talk:Codon usage bias

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It should start with a definition for codon usage bias, with the words in boldface. I can't see why this isn't possible. Richard001 (talk) 08:29, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

The codons are redundant and degenerate. This is because each unique codon, encodes a SINGLE amino acid; but most of the 20 amino acids are coded for by more than one codon. Enzymes-GMU (talk) 17:20, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

There is no mention here of histone wrapping as another factor in codon selection. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:242:C201:7890:D13D:D071:2DCC:9F77 (talk) 05:15, 23 January 2017 (UTC)

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extraneous logo
There was a sequence logo from a methods paper by Dutihl, et al https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3129529/ that is completely extraneous to this article. The logo condenses a lot of amino acid profiles from an automated gene-identification system. It has nothing to do with codon usage bias. Dabs (talk) 18:07, 29 August 2019 (UTC)

Updates needed to theory section
This article does not mention biased gene conversion anywhere. The theory section does not reflect the literature from the past 15 years. The mutation-selection-drift model was a prevailing view until the late 1990s when evidence for biased gene conversion began to accumulate. Dabs (talk) 18:38, 29 August 2019 (UTC)

Suggested revision
 * begin with Bulmer's mut-sel-drift model as a baseline. this allows both mutational and selective effects. Shah and Gilchrist as exemplar
 * explain how Hershberg and Petrov undermined the mutationist hypothesis for genome composition by showing that mutation is generally AT-biased
 * introduce the idea of biased gene conversion via key source and more recent sources such as and
 * restate synopsis of current thinking on causes (should also appear earlier in this article), and explain some of the taxonomically variable factors important in these models. Fold in the content of "contributing factors" section which can be deleted.
 * population size
 * diploidy and sex
 * tRNA repertoire

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 * Kaiser CM, Liu K. Folding up and Moving on-Nascent Protein Folding on the