Spliceosomal introns as tools for genomic and evolutionary analysis

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1703-1712

  Irimia, Manuel ^a   Roy, Scott William ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOME SIZE; HUMAN; INTRON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; ORTHOLOGY; PARALOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPLICEOSOME; STRUCTURAL GENOMICS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; GENOMICS; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPLICEOSOMES;

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EID: 41149095429     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkn012     Document Type: Review

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