Comparative evolutionary rates of introns and exons in murine rodents

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 125-130

  Hughes, Austin L ^a   Yeager, Meredith ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Exons; Introns; Murine rodents; Nucleotide content; Nucleotide substitution

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; EXON; GENOME; INTRON; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RAT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; GENES; INTRONS; MICE; RATS; RODENTIA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; VARIATION (GENETICS);

MURINAE; RODENTIA;

EID: 0030845926     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00006211     Document Type: Article

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