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The authors are extremely grateful to the anonymous reviewers whose critical comments on the manuscript helped to compose the manuscript in a more focussed way and also significantly changed the discussion and conclusion. Authors also thank Dr Rocktotpal Konwarh, Tezpur University and Dr A. Bachawat, IISER, Mohali, for their comments on the manuscript. VJB thankfully acknowledges the receipt of his Research Associateship from the Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Govt. of India funded Bioinformatics Infrastructure Facility (BIF), Tezpur University. SKR and SSS are thankful to DBT, Govt. of India for the twinning project grant on codon usage bias under the research area Bioinformatics.
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[Ray S. K., Baruah V. J., Satapathy S. S. and Banerjee R. 2014 Cotranslational protein folding reveals the selective use of synonymous codons along the coding sequence of a low expression gene. J. Genet. 93, xx–xx]
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RAY, S.K., BARUAH, V.J., SATAPATHY, S.S. et al. Cotranslational protein folding reveals the selective use of synonymous codons along the coding sequence of a low expression gene. J Genet 93, 613–617 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12041-014-0429-1
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