Microsatellites within genes: Structure, function, and evolution

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 991-1007

  Li, You Chun ^a,b   Korol, Abraham B ^a   Fahima, Tzion ^a   Nevo, Eviatar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Gene; Gene inactivation; Microsatellite; Phenotype; Truncated protein

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; MESSENGER RNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ADAPTATION; ALLELE; CELL FUNCTION; CODON; CYTOPLASM; EUKARYOTE; EUKARYOTE EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SILENCING; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HETEROCHROMATIN; HUMAN; INTRON; MISMATCH REPAIR; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REVIEW; RNA SPLICING; RNA TRANSLATION; SIMPLE SEQUENCE REPEAT;

CODON; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES; INTRONS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; UNTRANSLATED REGIONS;

EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 2442701496     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msh073     Document Type: Review

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