Analysis of evolution of exon-intron structure of eukaryotic genes

Briefings in Bioinformatics

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 118-134

  Rogozin, Igor B ^a   Sverdlov, Alexander V ^a   Babenko, Vladimir N ^a   Koonin, Eugene V ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Early eukaryotes; Exon shuffling; Intron evolution; Intron gain; Intron loss; Protosplice site

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; AMINO ACID; CYTOSINE; ELONGATION FACTOR 1ALPHA; GUANINE; SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN;

ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; CODON; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EUKARYOTE; EUKARYOTIC CELL; EXON; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC SELECTION; GENOMICS; HYPOTHESIS; INTRON; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; HUMANS; INTRONS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA; PROTISTA;

EID: 21044447550     PISSN: 14675463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bib/6.2.118     Document Type: Article

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