Exon definition as a potential negative force against intron losses in evolution

Biology Direct

Volumn 3, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Niu, Deng Ke ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EUKARYOTA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EXON; GENETICS; INTRON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; RNA SPLICING; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; INTRONS; MODELS, GENETIC; RNA SPLICING; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 58149513315     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17456150     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1745-6150-3-46     Document Type: Article

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