Association of intron phases with conservation at splice site sequences and evolution of spliceosomal introns

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1528-1534

  Long, Manyuan ^a   Deutsch, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Evolution of intron exon structures; Intron loss; Intron phase; Natural selection; Splice site conservation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EUKARYOTE; EVOLUTION; EXON; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; INTRON; OPEN READING FRAME; RNA SPLICING; SPLICEOSOME;

EID: 0032753460     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a026065     Document Type: Article

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