id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-269353-wgeuh1i2 Tian, Lin The adaptation of codon usage of +ssRNA viruses to their hosts 2018-06-02 .txt text/plain 2573 163 61 Consequently, we test the hypothesis that similarity of codon usage preference and the degree of matching between BSTVs and their hosts will be lower than that of NSTVs, which only need to coevolve with few hosts. Our results show that NSTVs have a higher degree of matching to their hosts' tRNA pools than BSTVs. Further, analysis of the effective number of codons (ENC) infers that codon usage bias of NSTVs is relatively stronger than that of BSTVs. Thus, codon usage of NSTVs tends to better match their host than that of BSTVs. This supports the hypothesis that viruses adapt to the expression system of their host(s). As expected, our analysis show that generally NSTVs are more adapted to their hosts' codon usage pattern and tRNA pools than BSTVs. This may help the virus to use the host transcript machinery more efficiently and, therefore, replicate faster. ./cache/cord-269353-wgeuh1i2.txt ./txt/cord-269353-wgeuh1i2.txt