ANNALS OF CONSERVATION
BLUE BLOODS
The horseshoe crab is half a billion years old, but its existence may be threatened.
BY IAN FRAZIERAPRIL 14, 2014
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/04/14/140414fa_fact_frazier
Can the Horseshoe #Crab Be Saved? Its blue, Cu-based blood contains #LAL which acts as a sensor for bacterial toxins
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/04/14/140414fa_fact_frazier
The gist is that it is important for protein folding to choose optimal and non-optimal synonymous codons, at different locations.
http://www.nature.com/nsmb/journal/v20/n2/full/nsmb.2466.html
An interesting paper! Nice to see codon usage revisited again. Another revisiting of codons (my own) is at
http://papers.gersteinlab.org/papers/revisit-cai
Evolutionary conservation of codon optimality reveals hidden signatures of cotranslational folding
Sebastian Pechmann & Judith Frydman
Nature Structural & Molecular Biology 20, 237–243 (2013) doi:10.1038/nsmb.2466
U.S. Redraws World Oil Map
Shale Boom Puts America on Track to Surpass Saudi Arabia in Production by 2020 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324073504578115152144093088.html