Caenorhabditis globin genes: Rapid intronic divergence contrasts with conservation of silent exonic sites

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 101-108

  Kloek, Andrew P ^a   McCarter, James P ^a   Setterquist, Robert A ^b   Schedl, Tim ^a   Goldberg, Daniel E ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Alleles; Evolution; Gene conversion; Introns; Nematode

Indexed keywords

GLOBIN; POLYPEPTIDE;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EVOLUTION; EXON; GENE CONVERSION; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GLOBIN GENE; INTRON; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; SILENT GENE;

EID: 0029785078     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02337354     Document Type: Article

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