Does drive toward canonic exonic splicing sites exist in mammals?

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 387-394

  Babenko, Vladimir ^a   Ward, William ^b   Ruvinsky, Anatoly ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF CYTOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Dynamic equilibrium; Evolution; Exons; Mammalian genome; Splicing sites; Substitutions

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CATTLE; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DOG; EXON; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; HORSE; HUMAN; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOUSE; MUTATION; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; CATTLE; DATABASES, GENETIC; DOGS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; HORSES; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MAMMALS; MICE; MUTATION; RNA SPLICE SITES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EUTHERIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 77954456827     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00239-010-9336-0     Document Type: Article

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