Patterns of intron gain and loss in fungi

PLoS Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 12, 2004, Pages

  Nielsen, Cydney B ^a,b   Friedman, Brad ^a   Birren, Bruce ^b   Burge, Christopher B ^a   Galagan, James E ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1 PHOSPHORIBOSYL 5 PYROPHOSPHATE SYNTHETASE; ENZYME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ADENOSINE; POLYADENOSINE; POLYMER; RIBOSEPHOSPHATE PYROPHOSPHOKINASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; DATA BASE; FUNGUS; FUSARIUM GRAMINEARUM; GENE LOSS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENOME; INTRON; MAGNAPORTHE GRISEA; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; ORTHOLOGY; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; ANIMAL; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EXON; FUNGAL GENE; FUSARIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; MAGNAPORTHE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROBABILITY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

FUNGI;

ADENOSINE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EXONS; FUSARIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; GENOME; GENOME, FUNGAL; INTRONS; MAGNAPORTHE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; POLYMERS; PROBABILITY; RIBOSE-PHOSPHATE PYROPHOSPHOKINASE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 14044252770     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020422     Document Type: Article

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