Mystery of intron gain

Genome Research

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 2236-2241

  Fedorov, Alexei ^a,b   Roy, Scott ^b   Fedorova, Larisa ^a,c   Gilbert, Walter ^b  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF OHIO   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TRANSPOSITION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC GAIN; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INTRON; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ARABIDOPSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DUPLICATION; GENES, HELMINTH; GENES, INSECT; HUMANS; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

ANIMALIA; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0142092553     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.1029803     Document Type: Article

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