Evolutionarily conserved elements in vertebrate, insect, worm, and yeast genomes

Genome Research

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1034-1050

  Siepel, Adam ^a   Bejerano, Gill ^a   Pedersen, Jakob S ^a   Hinrichs, Angie S ^a   Hou, Minmei ^c   Rosenbloom, Kate ^a   Clawson, Hiram ^a   Spieth, John ^d   Hillier, LaDeana W ^d   Richards, Stephen ^e   Weinstock, George M ^e   Wilson, Richard K ^d   Gibbs, Richard A ^e   Kent, W James ^a   Miller, Webb ^c   Haussler, David ^a,b  

^a University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS; CHICKEN; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DROSOPHILA; EXON; GENOME; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; INSECT; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PUFFER FISH; REGULATOR GENE; RNA STRUCTURE; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; VERTEBRATE; WORM; YEAST;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ANIMALS; BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, INTERGENIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME; HUMANS; INSECTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SACCHAROMYCES; VERTEBRATES; YEASTS;

ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; INSECTA; PHYLO; SACCHAROMYCES; TAKIFUGU RUBRIPES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 23744458086     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.3715005     Document Type: Article

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