Evolutionary convergence on highly-conserved 3′ intron structures in intron-poor eukaryotes and insights into the ancestral eukaryotic genome

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2008, Pages

  Irimia, Manuel ^a   Roy, Scott William ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EUKARYOTE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENOME; GREEN ALGA; INTRON; METAZOON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EUKARYOTIC CELL; FISH; FUNGUS; GENETICS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PHYTOPHTHORA; PROTOZOON; RNA SPLICING; SPLICEOSOME;

CHLOROPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; METAZOA; OSTREOCOCCUS; PROTISTA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FISHES; FUNGI; GENOME; HUMANS; INTRONS; PHYLOGENY; PHYTOPHTHORA; PLANTS; PROTOZOA; RNA SPLICE SITES; SPLICEOSOMES;

EID: 50849088978     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000148     Document Type: Article

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