Lower GC-content in editing exons: Implications for regulation by molecular characteristics maintained by selection

Gene

Volumn 421, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 14-19

  Cao, Jun ^a   Wu, Xiaojie ^a   Jin, Yongfeng ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

G and Ka Ks; GC content; Purifying selection; RNA editing

Indexed keywords

DNA; NUCLEOTIDE; RNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EXON; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; CODON; CYTOSINE; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; GUANINE; INSECT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA EDITING; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SYNAPTOTAGMIN I;

EID: 48549095628     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2008.05.012     Document Type: Article

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