Hitchhiking effects of recurrent beneficial amino acid substitutions in the Drosophila melanogaster genome

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Figure 2.
Figure 2.

Reduced levels of codon usage bias associated with high rates of protein evolution. Plotted is the frequency of preferred codons (Fop) versus partial regression residuals of Ka (corrected for Ks). (Dashed line) Average Fop across loci.

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  1. Genome Res. 17: 1755-1762

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