Assessing the fraction of short-distance tandem splice sites under purifying selection

RNA

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 616-619

  Hiller, Michael ^a   Szafranski, Karol ^b   Sinha, Rileen ^b   Huse, Klaus ^b   Nikolajewa, Swetlana ^c   Rosenstiel, Philip ^d   Schreiber, Stefan ^d   Backofen, Rolf ^a   Platzer, Matthias ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b FRITZ LIPMANN INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Comparative genome analysis; Purifying selection; Simpson's paradox; Subtle alternative splicing; Tandem splice site

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUFFER FISH; RNA PURIFICATION; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA SPLICING; ZEBRA FISH;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHICKENS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; DOGS; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; HUMANS; INTRONS; MACACA MULATTA; MICE; PHYLOGENY; RNA SPLICE SITES; RNA, MESSENGER; SELECTION (GENETICS); TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES;

CANIS FAMILIARIS; DANIO RERIO; TAKIFUGU;

EID: 41649095960     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: 14699001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.883908     Document Type: Article

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