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Molecular Biology and Evolution, Vol 11, 231-238, Copyright © 1994 by Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution

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Codon use and the rate of divergence of land plant chloroplast genes

BR Morton
Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside.

Codon fitnesses for chloroplast genes were estimated using the relative synonymous codon use of psbA, which has a different pattern of codon use than other chloroplast genes and is the major translation product of the chloroplast. These estimates were used to calculate the codon adaptation index (CAI) of chloroplast genes from Marchantia polymorpha, Nicotiana tabacum, and Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. The genes with the highest CAI values in M. polymorpha correspond to those that are expressed at the highest levels. The rate of divergence between M. polymorpha and both C. reinhardtii and N. tabacum is inversely related to the CAI value of the M. polymorpha gene. The data suggest that selection is acting on the synonymous codon use of the highly expressed genes of the M. polymorpha chloroplast genome. The data set is inconclusive about N. tabacum genes, but, as there is a weaker correspondence between CAI value and expression level, it suggests that selection is not operating in this lineage.
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