Hypervariable and highly divergent intron-exon organizations in the chordate Oikopleura dioica

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 448-457

  Edvardsen, Rolf B ^a   Lerat, Emmanuelle ^b   Maeland, Anne Dorthea ^a   Flåt, Mette ^a   Tewari, Rita ^a   Jensen, Marit F ^a   Lehrach, Hans ^c   Reinhardt, Richard ^c   Seo, Hee Chan ^a   Chourrout, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Tubulin; Conversion; Hox; Intron; Oikopleura; Ribosomal protein; Urochordate

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TUBULIN; HOX PROTEIN; RIBOSOME PROTEIN; RIBOSOME PROTEIN EF 1 ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHORDATA; EXON; GENE; GENE CONVERSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE REPRESSION; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INTRON; INVERTEBRATE; LIFE CYCLE; METHYLATION; NONHUMAN; OIKOPLEURA DIOICA; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ISOLATION; SPECIES; VERTEBRATE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTOR 1; PHYLOGENY; RIBOSOMAL PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TUBULIN; UROCHORDATA; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ARACHNIDA; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHORDATA; HEXAPODA; INSERTION SEQUENCES; INVERTEBRATA; NEMATODA; OIKOPLEURA; OIKOPLEURA DIOICA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 4644260480     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00239-004-2636-5     Document Type: Article

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