Alternative splicing and evolution

BioEssays

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1031-1034

  Boue, Stephanie ^a   Letunic, Ivica ^b   Bork, Peer ^b  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; EXON; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; REVIEW; RNA SPLICING;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, SURFACE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; HUMANS; INTRONS; MILK PROTEINS;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 0242636197     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.10371     Document Type: Review

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