Intron evolution: Testing hypotheses of intron evolution using the phylogenomics of tetraspanins

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Garcia España, Antonio ^a,b   Mares, Roso ^a   Sun, Tung Tien ^c   DeSalle, Rob ^d  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI JOAN XXIII   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TETRASPANIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; SPACER DNA;

ARTICLE; EUKARYOTE; EXON; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOSS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INTRON; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TAXONOMIC IDENTIFICATION; ANIMAL; GENE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION;

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; PROTISTA;

ANIMALS; DNA, INTERGENIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES; HUMANS; INTRONS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 61849175945     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004680     Document Type: Article

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