Very little intron loss/gain in Plasmodium: Intron loss/gain mutation rates and intron number

Genome Research

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 750-756

  Roy, Scott William ^a   Hartl, Daniel L ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; FUNGUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOSS; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; INTRON; MUTATION RATE; NEMATODE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORTHOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PLANT; PLASMODIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES COMPARISON;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; DATABASES, GENETIC; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENES, PROTOZOAN; INTRONS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM YOELII; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS;

ARTHROPODA; FUNGI; MYA; NEMATODA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM YOELII; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33744789972     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.4845406     Document Type: Article

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