Footprints of primordial introns on the eukaryotic genome

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 496-501

  Roy, Scott W ^a   Lewis, Benjamin Peter ^a   Fedorov, Alexei ^a   Gilbert, Walter ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DENSITY; DNA FOOTPRINTING; EUKARYOTE; EXON; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE LOSS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENOME; INTRON; LETTER; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPLICEOSOME; TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0035451109     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9525(01)02375-7     Document Type: Letter

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