High qualitative and quantitative conservation of alternative splicing in Caenorhabditis elegans and Caenorhabditis briggsae

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 909-917

  Rukov, Jakob Lewin ^a   Irimia, Manuel ^a,b   Mørk, Søren ^a   Lund, Viktor Karlovich ^a   Vinther, Jeppe ^a   Arctander, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Caenorhabditis; Evodevo; Transcriptome diversity

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ALX 1 GENE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS BRIGGSAE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CLE 1 GENE; CUP 5 GENE; DEB 1 GENE; DNA SYNTHESIS; EFF 1 GENE; GEI 4 GENE; GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC REGULATION; HIL 7 GENE; IFB 2 GENE; ITR 1 GENE; LIN 10 GENE; MIG 15 GENE; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEOMICS; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RME 8 GENE; RNA EXTRACTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SWP 1 GENE; TNT 3 GENE; UNC 52 GENE; UNC 53 GENE; UVT 5 GENE;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HELMINTH; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS BRIGGSAE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 34047225575     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msm023     Document Type: Article

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