Alternative splicing and the steady-state ratios of mRNA isoforms generated by it are under strong stabilizing selection in Caenorhabditis elegans

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2431-2437

  Barberan Soler, Sergio ^a   Zahler, Alan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Evolution; Microarrays

Indexed keywords

CIS ACTING ELEMENT; MESSENGER RNA; TRANS ACTING FACTOR;

ALLELE; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; DNA MICROARRAY; EXON; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC STABILITY; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION RATE; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STEADY STATE;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; HUMANS; MICE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RNA SPLICING; RNA STABILITY; RNA, HELMINTH; RNA, MESSENGER; SELECTION (GENETICS); SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; MUS; NEMATODA;

EID: 54149093760     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msn181     Document Type: Article

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