Error prevention and mitigation as forces in the evolution of genes and genomes

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 875-881

  Warnecke, Tobias ^a   Hurst, Laurence D ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR GENOMIC REGULATION CRG   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAULTY GENE PRODUCT; GENE PRODUCT; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CASE STUDY; CODON; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENOME; GENOME ANALYSIS; HAPLOIDY; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; INTRON; NONHUMAN; NONSENSE MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; OPERON; PARAMECIUM TETRAURELIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STABILITY; QUALITY CONTROL; REVIEW; RIBOSOMAL FRAMESHIFTING; RNA INTERFERENCE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TATA BOX;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES; GENOME; HUMANS;

EID: 81355142140     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg3092     Document Type: Review

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