Interpreting mammalian synonymous site conservation in light of the unwanted transcript hypothesis

Abstract Mammalian genomes are biased towards GC bases at third codon positions, likely due to a GC-biased ancestral genome and the selectively neutral recombination-related process of GC-biased gene conversion. The unwanted transcript hypothesis posits that this high GC content at synonymous sites...

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Main Authors: Matthew J. Christmas, Michael X. Dong, Jennifer R. S. Meadows, Sergey V. Kozyrev, Kerstin Lindblad-Toh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2025-02-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-57179-w
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