Remarkable interkingdom conservation of intron positions and massive, lineage-specific intron loss and gain in eukaryotic evolution

Current Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 17, 2003, Pages 1512-1517

  Rogozin, Igor B ^a   Wolf, Yuri I ^a   Sorokin, Alexander V ^a   Mirkin, Boris G ^b   Koonin, Eugene V ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; ARTHROPODA; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; NEMATODA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTISTA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0042921194     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(03)00558-X     Document Type: Article

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