"When trying to interpret the sequence of these bacteria using the canonical codon table, Opal, normally interpreted as a stop sign, resulted in the bacteria having unbelievably short genes.

Both Delarue's and Rodin's papers reorganize the codon table to reflect these contrasting molecular recognition modes. They infer rather different, but perhaps not mutually exclusive rules.

This degeneracy provides a layer of protection against mutations, as some mutations in the third nucleotide of a codon may not change the amino acid that is specified. Protein synthesis begins with a ...

There are no examples of a single codon within any genome that represents more than one amino acid. That is, until now. The Euplotes crassus Code Anton Turanov, Alexey Lubanov and Vladimir ...