Widespread evolutionary conservation of alternatively spliced exons in Caenorhabditis

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 375-382

  Irimia, Manuel ^a   Rukov, Jakob L ^b   Penny, David ^c   Garcia Fernandez, Jordi ^a   Vinther, Jeppe ^b   Roy, Scott W ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Caenorhabditis; Cassette exon; Evolution; Genome

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; PROTEOME; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; EXON; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENOME; GENOMICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS;

CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS BRIGGSAE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS REMANEI; DIPTERA; EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA; NEMATODA;

EID: 38949095296     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msm262     Document Type: Article

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