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DNA nucleotides: A case study of evolution

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The evolution in coding DNA sequences brings new flexibility and freedom to the codon words, even as the underlying nucleotides get significantly ordered. These curious contra-rules of gene organisation are observed from the distribution of words and the second moments of the nucleotide letters. We apply these statistical data to determine the relative positions of a few bacterial groups as per their divergence in the geological timescale.

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  1. Department of Theoretical Physics, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Calcutta 700 032, India, , , , , , IN

    S. Chattopadhyay, W.A. Kanner & J. Chakrabarti

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Received 3 January 2002

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Chattopadhyay, S., Kanner, W. & Chakrabarti, J. DNA nucleotides: A case study of evolution. Eur. Phys. J. B 26, 393–398 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e20020105

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