Messenger RNA surveillance and the evolutionary proliferation of introns

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 563-571

  Lynch, Michael ^a   Kewalramani, Avinash ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Genome complexity; Genome evolution; Introns; mRNA processing; mRNA surveillance; Nonsense mediated decay; Null alleles; Splicing

Indexed keywords

DNA; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; GENE MUTATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; INTRON; NULL ALLELE; RNA SPLICING; STOP CODON;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; INTRONS; MODELS, GENETIC; RNA, MESSENGER; SPLICEOSOMES;

EUKARYOTA; INSERTION SEQUENCES;

EID: 0037387431     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msg068     Document Type: Article

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