Modeling the asymmetric evolution of a mouse and rat-specific microRNA gene cluster intron 10 of the Sfmbt2 gene

BMC Genomics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Lehnert, Stefan ^a   Kapitonov, Vladimir ^b   Thilakarathne, Pushpike J ^a   Schuit, Frans C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b Genetic Information Research Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolution; Gene conversion; MicroRNA; MiRNA; Simple repeat; SINE B1F3

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME PROTEIN; MICRORNA; SFMBT2 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; MICROSATELLITE DNA; SFMBT2 PROTEIN, MOUSE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CHROMOSOME 2; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENE CLUSTER; INTRON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RAT; RETROPOSON; SFMBT2 GENE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; CHROMOSOME; GENETICS; HUMAN; INVERTED REPEAT; MOUSE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

DIDELPHIDAE; MUS; RATTUS;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES, MAMMALIAN; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; INTRONS; INVERTED REPEAT SEQUENCES; MICE; MICRORNAS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MODELS, GENETIC; MULTIGENE FAMILY; RATS; RETROELEMENTS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 79956222869     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-12-257     Document Type: Article

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