Influence of exon duplication on intron and exon phase distribution

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 263-271

  Fedorov, Alexey ^a,b,e   Fedorova, Larisa ^c   Starshenko, Valery ^d   Filatov, Vadim ^a   Grigor'ev, Eugeni ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c ENGELHARDT INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^d ZAPORIZHZHIA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Ukraine)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Exon shuffling; Exon intron gene structure; Gene evolution; Human genes; Intron phase order

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EXON; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; INTRON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; SPLICEOSOME;

EXONS; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; INTRONS; MODELS, GENETIC;

EID: 0031937032     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00006302     Document Type: Article

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