Phylogenetically older introns strongly correlate with module boundaries in ancient proteins

Genome Research

Volumn 13, Issue 6 A, 2003, Pages 1155-1157

  Fedorov, Alexei ^a,b   Roy, Scott ^a   Cao, Xiaohong ^a,c   Gilbert, Walter ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF OHIO   (United States)

^c GENZYME CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EUKARYOTE; EUKARYOTE EVOLUTION; EXON; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; INTRON; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TAXONOMY;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; INTRONS; PHYLOGENY; PROTEINS;

EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; INVERTEBRATA; PROKARYOTA; PROTISTA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0038817793     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.1008203     Document Type: Article

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