Evolutionary dynamics of introns in plastid-derived genes in plants: Saturation nearly reached but slow intron gain continues

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 111-119

  Basu, Malay Kumar ^a   Rogozin, Igor B ^a   Deusch, Oliver ^b   Dagan, Tal ^b   Martin, William ^b   Koonin, Eugene V ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Intron gain; Intron loss; Plant evolution; Plastid derived genes

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHLOROPLAST; ENDOSYMBIOSIS; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INTRON; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PLANT EVOLUTION; PLANT GENETICS; PLASTID;

DNA, CHLOROPLAST; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, PLANT; INTRONS; PLANTS; PLASTIDS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ARABIDOPSIS; CHLOROPHYTA; DICOTYLEDONEAE; EUKARYOTA; GLAUCOCYSTOPHYCEAE; LILIOPSIDA; PLANTAE; PROKARYOTA; RHODOPHYTA; VIRIDIPLANTAE;

EID: 38349114864     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msm234     Document Type: Article

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