Evidence for active maintenance of inverted repeat structures identified by a comparative genomic approach

PLoS ONE

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Zhao, Guoyan ^a   Chang, Kuan Y ^a   Varley, Katherine ^a   Stormo, Gary D ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS BRIGGSAE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS REMANEI; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMICS; INVERTED REPEAT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORTHOLOGY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENETICS; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

HELMINTH DNA; SPACER DNA;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; DNA, HELMINTH; DNA, INTERGENIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DUPLICATION; GENETIC SPECIATION; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; INVERTED REPEAT SEQUENCES; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 55349100534     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0000262     Document Type: Article

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