Increased complexity of gene structure and base composition in vertebrates

Journal of Genetics and Genomics

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 297-305

  Wu, Ying ^a   Yuan, Huizhong ^a   Tan, Shengjun ^a   Chen, Jian Qun ^a   Tian, Dacheng ^a   Yang, Haiwang ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Endotherm; GC content; Gene structure; Intron; UTR; Vertebrate

Indexed keywords

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; EXON; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CODE; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INTRON; MEDICAL RECORD; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; GC RICH SEQUENCE; GENOME; HUMANS; INTRONS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; VERTEBRATES;

DANIO RERIO; INVERTEBRATA; METAZOA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79960450999     PISSN: 16738527     EISSN: 18735533     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jgg.2011.06.004     Document Type: Article

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