Alternative splicing: A missing piece in the puzzle of intron gain

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 20, 2008, Pages 7223-7228

  Tarrío, Rosa ^a,b   Ayala, Francisco J ^b   Rodríguez Trelles, Francisco ^a,b  

^a Instituto de Salud Carlos III   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Intron drift; Intron migration; Intron movement; Intron sliding; Intron slippage

Indexed keywords

DNA; MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR; RNA;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EUKARYOTE; INTRON; INTRON DRIFT; INTRON MIGRATION; INTRON MOVEMENT; INTRON SLIDING; INTRON SLIPPAGE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; CELL LINEAGE; DNA; DOGS; EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME; HUMANS; INTRONS; MICE; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; RATS; RNA, MESSENGER;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 44449093240     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0802941105     Document Type: Article

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