Rate and polarity of gene fusion and fission in Oryza sativa and Arabidopsis thaliana

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 110-121

  Nakamura, Yoji ^a,b   Itoh, Takeshi ^c   Martin, William ^b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gene fusion and fission; Introns; Plant phylogeny; Transposable elements

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENE FUSION; GENE INSERTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PLANT EVOLUTION; RICE; RNA SPLICING; TRANSPOSON;

ARABIDOPSIS; GENE FUSION; GENES, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; ORYZA SATIVA; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; DICOTYLEDONEAE; EMBRYOPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; LILIOPSIDA; ORYZA SATIVA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 33845878246     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msl138     Document Type: Article

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