On the incidence of intron loss and gain in paralogous gene families

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1579-1581

  Roy, Scott William ^a   Penny, David ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Gene duplication; Gene families; Genome evolution; Parsimony; Statistical inference

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE LOSS; INCIDENCE; INTRON; MULTIGENE FAMILY; ORTHOLOGY; PARALOGY;

ANIMALS; ARABIDOPSIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; INTRONS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 34547735995     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msm082     Document Type: Article

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