Fast rate of evolution in alternatively spliced coding regions of mammalian genes

BMC Genomics

Volumn 7, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Ermakova, Ekaterina O ^a,b   Nurtdinov, Ramil N ^a   Gelfand, Mikhail S ^a,b  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATION TRANSMISSION PROBLEMS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOPROTEIN; RNA;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; THEORY;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OPEN READING FRAMES; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 33646538440     PISSN: 14712164     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-7-84     Document Type: Article

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