Intronic alternative splicing regulators identified by comparative genomics in nematodes

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 0734-0747

  Kabat, Jennifer L ^a   Barberan Soler, Sergio ^a   McKenna, Paul ^b,c   Clawson, Hiram ^b   Farrer, Tracy ^a,d   Zahler, Alan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

^c SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING SITES; GENOME; MAMMALS;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; BINDING-SITES; COMPARATIVE GENOMICS; EVOLUTIONARY CONSERVATIONS; HEXAMERS; IN-VIVO EXPERIMENTS; INTRONIC SEQUENCES; PENTAMERS; REGULATORY FACTORS; SELECTIVE PRESSURE;

GENES;

PHOSPHOPROTEIN; PROTEIN UNC 52; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; GENE DELETION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOMICS; IN VIVO STUDY; INTRON; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; RNA SPLICING; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

CAENORHABDITIS BRIGGSAE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; MAMMALIA; METAZOA; NEMATODA;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOMICS; HUMANS; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA;

EID: 33746609827     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.0020086     Document Type: Article

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