Longer first introns are a general property of eukaryotic gene structure

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 2008, Pages

  Bradnam, Keith R ^a   Korf, Ian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EUKARYOTE; GENBANK; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INTRON; NONHUMAN; PLANT GENETICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TREND STUDY; ANIMAL; GENE; GENETICS; NUCLEIC ACID DATABASE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PLANT GENE; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EUKARYOTA;

ANIMALS; ARABIDOPSIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENES; GENES, HELMINTH; GENES, INSECT; GENES, PLANT; INTRONS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 51849126044     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003093     Document Type: Article

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