mRNA-mediated intron losses: Evidence from extraordinarily large exons

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1475-1481

  Niu, Deng Ke ^a   Hou, Wen Ru ^a   Li, Shu Wei ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Extraordinarily large exon; Homologous recombination; Intron loss; Intron position; MRNA self primed reverse transcription

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GENOMIC DNA; MESSENGER RNA; POLYADENYLATED RNA;

ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CANDIDA GLABRATA; CHICKEN; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEBARYOMYCES HANSENII; DNA RECOMBINATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; EUKARYOTE; EXON; EXTRAORDINARILY LARGE EXON; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOSS; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HONEYBEE; HUMAN; INTRON; KLUYVEROMYCES; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PAN TROGLODYTES; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; YARROWIA LIPOLYTICA;

ANIMALS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME; HUMANS; INTRONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EUKARYOTA; PROTISTA;

EID: 19544367618     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msi138     Document Type: Article

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