Changes in alternative splicing of human and mouse genes are accompanied by faster evolution of constitutive exons

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 2198-2208

  Cusack, Brian P ^a   Wolfe, Kenneth H ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Constitutive exons; Exon skipping; Nonsynonymous rates; Selective constraint

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; EVOLUTIONARY RATE; EXON; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC CORRELATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; PARALOGY; PREDICTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTOMICS;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOMICS; HUMANS; MICE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

MAMMALIA;

EID: 26444473715     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msi218     Document Type: Article

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