Convergent evolution of alternative splices at domain boundaries of the BK channel

Annual Review of Physiology

Volumn 71, Issue , 2009, Pages 19-36

  Fodor, Anthony A ^a   Aldrich, Richard W ^b  

^a University of North Carolina at Charlotte   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioinformatics; Calcium activated potassium channel; Comparative genomics; Constitutive exons

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DNA; ION CHANNEL; LARGE CONDUCTANCE CALCIUM ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL; MESSENGER RNA; RNA;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; BIOINFORMATICS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHICKEN; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; DROSOPHILA; EXON; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE MUTATION; GENOME; GENOMICS; HUMAN; INVERTEBRATE; MOUSE; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SPECIES COMPARISON; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VERTEBRATE;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHICKENS; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; LARGE-CONDUCTANCE CALCIUM-ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNELS; MICE;

EID: 67349260120     PISSN: 00664278     EISSN: 15451585     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.physiol.010908.163124     Document Type: Review

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