Pseudogenes: Are They "Junk" or Functional DNA?

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 37, Issue , 2003, Pages 123-151

  Balakirev, Evgeniy S ^a,b,c   Ayala, Francisco J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF MARINE BIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^c FAR EASTERN FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

DNA polymorphism; Drosophila; Evolutionary rate; Neutral evolution; Potogene

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY RNA; CYTOKERATIN 17; FERROCHELATASE; GENOMIC DNA; GLUCOSYLCERAMIDASE; GLUTAMATE AMMONIA LIGASE; GLYCERALDEHYDE 3 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; GROWTH HORMONE; INTERFERON; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; STEROID 21 MONOOXYGENASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ALLELE; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; COPULATION; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA REPAIR; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; DROSOPHILA; GENE CLUSTER; GENE CONTROL; GENE CONVERSION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; INTRON; LITERATURE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; OPEN READING FRAME; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOGENE; REVIEW; RNA STABILITY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STOP CODON; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME; YEAST;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ESTERASES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; PSEUDOGENES; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ARACHNIDA; ASPERGILLUS; EMERICELLA NIDULANS; HEXAPODA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 0346155809     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.genet.37.040103.103949     Document Type: Review

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