Signs of ancient and modern exon-shuffling are correlated to the distribution of ancient and modern domains along proteins

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 341-350

  Vibranovski, Maria Dulcetti ^a,b   Sakabe, Noboru Jo ^a,b   De Oliveira, Rodrigo Soares ^a   De Souza, Sandro José ^a,b  

^a LUDWIG INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Exon shuffling; Introns early; Introns late; Protein domains

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EUKARYOTE; EXON; INTRON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; OPEN READING FRAME; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN DOMAIN; THEORY;

EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 25144449591     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00239-004-0318-y     Document Type: Article

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