The relationship between non-protein-coding DNA and eukaryotic complexity

BioEssays

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 288-299

  Taft, Ryan J ^a   Pheasant, Michael ^a   Mattick, John S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL DNA; CIS ACTING ELEMENT; DNA; RNA; TRANS ACTING FACTOR;

DNA CONTENT; DNA SEQUENCE; DOWN REGULATION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; EUKARYOTE EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE NUMBER; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; INTRON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PLOIDY; POLYPLOIDY; REVIEW; RNA SPLICING; RNA TRANSLATION; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; UNTRANSLATED REGION;

ANIMALS; DNA, INTERGENIC; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES; GENOME; HUMANS; INTRONS; PROTEINS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 33847698971     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.20544     Document Type: Review

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