Empirical relationship between intra-purine and intra-pyrimidine differences in conserved gene sequences

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Nandy, Ashesh ^a  

^a JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; BETA GLOBIN; CYTOSINE; DNA; GUANINE; NUCLEOTIDE; PURINE DERIVATIVE; PYRIMIDINE DERIVATIVE; RNA; PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; GC RICH SEQUENCE; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC SIMILARITY; HUMAN; INTRON; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RNA STRUCTURE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; HUMANS; PROTEINS; PURINES; PYRIMIDINES;

EID: 69949109749     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0006829     Document Type: Article

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