How much non-coding DNA do eukaryotes require?

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 252, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 587-592

  Ahnert, Sebastian E ^a,c   Fink, Thomas M A ^b   Zinovyev, Andrei ^a  

^a INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

^b INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accelerated networks; Genetic networks; Minimum; Prokaryotes

Indexed keywords

DNA; NON CODING DNA;

DNA; EUKARYOTE; GENETICS; GENOME; GENOMICS; HOMINID;

ARTICLE; EUKARYOTE; EXON; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE;

ANIMALS; DNA, INTERGENIC; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENOME; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; PROKARYOTIC CELLS;

EUKARYOTA; HOMO SAPIENS; MAMMALIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 44649172475     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2008.02.005     Document Type: Article

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