Intervening Sequences in Paralogous Genes: A Comparative Genomic Approach to Study the Evolution of X Chromosome Introns

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 2034-2041

  Cardazzo, Barbara ^a   Bargelloni, Luca ^a   Toffolatti, Luisa ^a   Patarnello, Tomaso ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Genome evolution; Intron size; Repeat elements; X chromosome

Indexed keywords

PROTEOME; REPETITIVE DNA;

ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; COMPARATIVE GENOME ANALYSIS; EUKARYOTE EVOLUTION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE INSERTION; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOME COMPACTNESS; GENOME EVOLUTION; GENOME SIZE; HUMAN; INTRON; INTRON SIZE; LINE1 TRANSPOSON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; ORTHOLOGY; PARALOGY; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEOME ANALYSIS; REPEAT ELEMENT; SINE ELEMENT; TRANSPOSON; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; DATABASES, PROTEIN; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DUPLICATION; GENES; HUMANS; INTRONS; MICE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; X CHROMOSOME;

EUKARYOTA; INSERTION SEQUENCES; TRANSPOSONS;

EID: 0346726029     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msg213     Document Type: Article

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