A large number of novel coding small open reading frames in the intergenic regions of the Arabidopsis thaliana genome are transcribed and/or under purifying selection

Genome Research

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 632-640

  Hanada, Kousuke ^a,b   Zhang, Xu ^b   Borevitz, Justin O ^b   Li, Wen Hsiung ^b   Shiu, Shin Han ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE; SPACER DNA;

ACCURACY; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA PURIFICATION; EXON; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; INTRON; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ARABIDOPSIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, INTERGENIC; OPEN READING FRAMES; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 34248202149     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.5836207     Document Type: Article

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