The Role of Introns in Repeat Protein Gene Formation

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 360, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 258-266

  Street, Timothy O ^a   Rose, George D ^a   Barrick, Doug ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

exons; geneformation; introns; local duplication; repeat protein

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EUKARYOTE; EXON; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; INTRON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; RNA SPLICING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TANDEM REPEAT;

EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 33745265209     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2006.05.024     Document Type: Article

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