Natural selection affects frequencies of AG and GT dinucleotides at the 5′ and 3′ ends of exons

Genetics

Volumn 167, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 543-550

  Eskesen, S T ^a   Eskesen, F N ^a,b   Ruvinsky, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DINUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DNA SPLICING; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EXON; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCATION; HUMAN; INTRON; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CODON; EXONS; HUMANS; INTRONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SELECTION (GENETICS);

CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 2942596145     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.167.1.543     Document Type: Article

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