Models of spliceosomal intron proliferation in the face of widespread ectopic expression

Gene

Volumn 366, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 201-208

  Rodríguez Trelles, Francisco ^a,b   Tarrío, Rosa ^a,b   Ayala, Francisco J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Duplication; Intron evolution; Intron function; Introns early theory; Introns late theory; Origin of multicellularity

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS DNA; COMPLEMENTARY DNA;

ARTHROPOD; BRUGIA MALAYI; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DNA DETERMINATION; FLY; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOSS; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC MODEL; GERM LINE; HUMAN; HUMAN VERSUS NONHUMAN DATA; INTRON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; REVIEW; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SPLICEOSOME; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; TRANSPOSON; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; INTRONS; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA SPLICING; SPLICEOSOMES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ARTHROPODA; BRUGIA MALAYI; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 32444441109     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2005.09.004     Document Type: Review

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