The birth of new exons: Mechanisms and evolutionary consequences

RNA

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1603-1608

  Sorek, Rotem ^a,b  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b DOE JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Exonization

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; EXON; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; INTRON; METAZOON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; VERTEBRATES;

CANIS FAMILIARIS; METAZOA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 34748907400     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: 14699001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.682507     Document Type: Short Survey

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