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The amount of nitrogen used for photosynthesis governs molecular evolution in plants

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/162693
Steven Kelly
Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3RB, UK
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Abstract

Genome and transcript sequences are composed of long strings of nucleotide monomers (A, C, G and T/U) that require different quantities of nitrogen atoms for biosynthesis. Here it is shown that plants that require more nitrogen for photosynthesis use nucleotides with fewer nitrogen atoms in both genome and transcript sequences. These findings reveal that plant GC content, codon use, and gene sequence evolution are driven by photosynthetic nitrogen demand.

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