Patterns and rates of intron divergence between humans and chimpanzees

Genome Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Gazave, Elodie ^a   Marqués Bonet, Tomàs ^a   Fernando, Olga ^a,b   Charlesworth, Brian ^c   Navarro, Arcadi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE TECNOLOGIA QUÍMICA E BIOLÓGICA   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CPG ISLAND; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; HUMAN; INTRON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; PAN TROGLODYTES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

EUKARYOTA; PAN;

ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; INTRONS; PAN TROGLODYTES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 34249061913     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2007-8-2-r21     Document Type: Article

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