Contrasting 5′ and 3′ evolutionary histories and frequent evolutionary convergence in Meis/hth gene structures

Genome Biology and Evolution

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 551-564

  Irimia, Manuel ^a,b,e   Maeso, Ignacio ^a,f   Burguera, Demián ^a   Hidalgo Sanchez, Matías ^c   Puelles, Luis ^d   Roy, Scott W ^b   Garcia Fernàndez, Jordi ^a   Ferran, José Luis ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Convergent evolution; Homeobox transcription factors; Intron exon structures

Indexed keywords

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; EXON; GENETICS; HUMAN; INTRON; INVERTEBRATE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; VERTEBRATE;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; INTRONS; INVERTEBRATES; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 80054787751     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17596653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evr056     Document Type: Article

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