Origin of new genes: Evidence from experimental and computational analyses

Genetica

Volumn 118, Issue 2-3, 2003, Pages 171-182

  Long, Manyuan ^a   Deutsch, Michael ^a   Wang, Wen ^a   Betrán, Esther ^a   Brunet, Frédéric G ^a   Zhang, Jianming ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Domain shuffling; Evolutionary genomics; Exon shuffling; Exon intron evolution; Intron phases; New genes

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROMES C1; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; GENES; MUTANT CHIMERIC PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RETROELEMENTS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DARWINIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; INVERTEBRATA; MELANOGASTER; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0038645119     PISSN: 00166707     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1024153609285     Document Type: Article

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