Evidence that human genes of modular proteins have retained significantly more ancestral introns than their fly or worm orthologues

FEBS Letters

Volumn 565, Issue 1-3, 2004, Pages 127-132

  Bányai, László ^a   Patthy, László ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Exon shuffling; Genome evolution; Intron gain; Intron loss; Protein module

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE GENE MAPPING; EXON; FLY; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC LINKAGE; HUMAN; INTRON; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; WORM;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL LINEAGE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; HUMANS; INTERNET; INTRONS; MODELS, GENETIC; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

INSECTA;

EID: 2342548646     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2004.03.088     Document Type: Article

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