Evidence for a subpopulation of conserved alternative splicing events under selection pressure for protein reading frame preservation

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1261-1269

  Resch, Alissa ^a   Xing, Yi ^a   Alekseyenko, Alexander ^a   Modrek, Barmak ^a   Lee, Christopher ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN; RNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EXON; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; ZEBRA FISH; ANIMAL; GENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RNA SPLICING;

ANIMALIA; DANIO RERIO;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; GENOME; HUMANS; MICE; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RATS; READING FRAMES; RNA SPLICE SITES;

EID: 2542603045     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkh284     Document Type: Article

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