The 5S rDNA gene family in mollusks: Characterization of transcriptional regulatory regions, prediction of secondary structures, and long-term evolution, with special attention to Mytilidae mussels

Journal of Heredity

Volumn 102, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 433-447

  Vizoso, Miguel ^a   Vierna, Joaquín ^a   González Tizón, Ana M ^a   Martínez Lage, Andrés ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF A CORUÑA   (Spain)

Author keywords

5S ribosomal RNA; ancestral polymorphism; birth and death evolution; concerted evolution; mollusks; pseudogenes

Indexed keywords

DNA 5S;

ARTICLE; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUSSEL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYTILIDAE; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; REGULATORY ELEMENTS, TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 5S; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; BIVALVIA; CEPHALOPODA; GASTROPODA; MOLLUSCA; MYTILIDAE; SOLENIDAE;

EID: 79959526677     PISSN: 00221503     EISSN: 14657333     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jhered/esr046     Document Type: Article

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