Complete, precise, and innocuous loss of multiple introns in the currently intronless, active cathepsin L-like genes, and inference from this event

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 685-696

  Hu, Ke Jin ^a,b   Leung, Pak Chow ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Barley; Cathepsin; Cysteine protease; Double strand break repair; Homologous recombination; Intron loss; Retrotransposition; Shrimp; Yeast

Indexed keywords

CATHEPSIN; CATHEPSIN L; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BARLEY; CHEMISTRY; CRUSTACEA; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE DELETION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; INTRON; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; RICE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CATHEPSINS; CRUSTACEA; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; GENE DELETION; HORDEUM; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORYZA SATIVA; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); HORDEUM VULGARE SUBSP. VULGARE; THEILERIA;

EID: 33244465376     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2005.09.005     Document Type: Article

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