Whole genome duplications and a 'function' for junk DNA? facts and hypotheses

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2009, Pages

  Veitia, Reiner A ^a,c   Bottani, Samuel ^b,c  

^a INSTITUT JACQUES MONOD   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; SPACER DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL VOLUME; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; GENE DOSAGE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC REGULATION; SIMULATION; THEORETICAL MODEL; WHOLE GENOME DUPLICATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETICS; GENOME; KINETICS; METABOLISM; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYPLOIDY; PROTEIN BINDING;

DNA; DNA, INTERGENIC; GENE DOSAGE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENOME; KINETICS; MODELS, GENETIC; OPEN READING FRAMES; POLYPLOIDY; PROTEIN BINDING; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 77949513239     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0008201     Document Type: Article

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