Exon size distribution and the origin of introns

Genetica

Volumn 131, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 299-306

  Gudlaugsdottir, Sigurbjorg ^a   Boswell, D Ross ^b   Wood, Graham R ^a   Ma, Jun ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MIDDLEMORE HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Intron early; Intron late; Mixture model

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; EXON; INTRON; PHYSIOLOGY;

EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; EXONS; INTRONS; MODELS, GENETIC;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 35448952134     PISSN: 00166707     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10709-007-9139-4     Document Type: Article

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