Intron position conservation across eukaryotic lineages in tubulin genes

Frontiers in Bioscience

Volumn 10, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2005, Pages 2412-2419

  Perumal, Bagavathi S ^a   Sakharkar, Kishore R ^b   Chow, Vincent Tak Kwong ^c   Kangueane, Pandjassarame ^a   Sakharkar, Meena Kishore ^a,d  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Conservation; Genome Evolution; Intron Gain; Intron Loss; Tubulin

Indexed keywords

GAMMA TUBULIN; RECOMBINANT ALPHA2B INTERFERON; TUBULIN;

ARTICLE; CELL LINEAGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EUKARYOTE; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENOME; GENOMICS; HYPOTHESIS; INTRON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 21344456176     PISSN: 27686701     EISSN: 27686698     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2741/1706     Document Type: Article

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