Genome-wide evolutionary analysis of the noncoding RNA genes and noncoding DNA of Paramecium tetraurelia

RNA

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 503-514

  Chen, Chun Long ^a,b,c   Zhou, Hui ^c   Liao, Jian You ^c   Qu, Liang Hu ^c   Amar, Laurence ^a,b,d  

^a Universiteandacute Paris Sud   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

Ciliates; Evolutionary constraints; Noncoding rna (ncRNA) genes; Short introns; Untranslated regions (UTRs)

Indexed keywords

DNA; RIBOSOME RNA; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ARTICLE; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE DELETION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; GENOMICS; PARAMECIUM TETRAURELIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; PARAMECIUM TETRAURELIA; RNA, PROTOZOAN; RNA, UNTRANSLATED;

CILIOPHORA; PARAMECIUM TETRAURELIA; PROTISTA;

EID: 62549104232     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: 14699001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.1306009     Document Type: Article

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