Intron-dominated genomes of early ancestors of eukaryotes

Journal of Heredity

Volumn 100, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 618-623

  Koonin, Eugene V ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Effective population size; Endosymbiosis; Group II self splicing introns; Origin of eukaryotes; Spliceosomal introns

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURE; CODING; DENSITY; EUKARYOTE; GENE LOSS; GENOME; INTRON; LAST COMMON ANCESTOR; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; POPULATION GENETIC PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA SPLICING;

EUKARYOTIC CELLS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME; INTRONS; RNA SPLICING; SPLICEOSOMES; SYMBIOSIS;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 69249211050     PISSN: 00221503     EISSN: 14657333     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jhered/esp056     Document Type: Review

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