Selection for short introns in highly expressed genes

Nature Genetics

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 415-418

  Castillo Davis, Cristian I ^a   Mekhedov, Sergei L ^b   Hartl, Daniel L ^a   Koonin, Eugene V ^b   Kondrashov, Fyodor A ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; NUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EUKARYOTE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; INTRON; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; INTRONS; SELECTION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EUKARYOTA; HOMO; HOMO SAPIENS; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0036699596     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng940     Document Type: Article

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