Testing the 'proto-splice sites' model of intron origin: Evidence from analysis of intron phase correlations

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 1789-1796

  Long, Manyuan ^a   Rosenberg, Carl ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b Falling Rain Genomics Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolution of intron exon structures; Exon shuffling; Intron insertion; Intron phase; Proto splice sites

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DATA BASE; GENE STRUCTURE; HYPOTHESIS; INTRON; SIMULATION; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; THEORY;

EID: 0033637638     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a026279     Document Type: Article

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