Large-scale trends in the evolution of gene structures within 11 animal genomes

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 113-125

  Yandell, Mark ^a,b,c   Mungall, Chris J ^a   Smith, Chris ^b   Prochnik, Simon ^b,d   Kaminker, Joshua ^b,e   Hartzell, George ^b   Lewis, Suzanna ^b   Rubin, Gerald M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d DOE JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e GENENTECH INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; GENES; OPEN SYSTEMS; PROTEINS;

ANIMAL GENOMES; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; COMPARATIVE GENOMICS; DROSOPHILLA; DROSOPHILLA MELANOGASTER; GENE STRUCTURE; HOMO SAPIENS; LARGE-SCALES; MUS MUSCULUS; PROTEIN GENES;

OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAMBRIAN; CIONA INTESTINALIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EXON; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; INTRON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; GENETICS; GENOME; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; PHYLOGENY; PROTEOMICS;

ANIMALIA; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CIONA INTESTINALIS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA SIMULANS; HOMO SAPIENS; MUS MUSCULUS;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CIONA INTESTINALIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME; HUMANS; MICE; PHYLOGENY; PROTEOMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33645769791     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.0020015     Document Type: Article

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