Origin and evolution of spliceosomal introns

Biology Direct

Volumn 7, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Rogozin, Igor B ^a   Carmel, Liran ^b   Csuros, Miklos ^c   Koonin, Eugene V ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Eukaryotic ancestor; Evolution of exon intron structure; Intron gain; Intron loss; Intron sliding; Mobile domains; Phylogenetic trees; Spliceosome; Splicing signals

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA; METAZOA; PROKARYOTA; PROTISTA; VERTEBRATA;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; EUKARYOTE; EXON; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; GENOME; INTRON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETICS; REVIEW; RNA SPLICING; SPLICEOSOME; UNTRANSLATED REGION;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EUKARYOTA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME; INTRONS; PHYLOGENY; RNA SPLICE SITES; SELECTION, GENETIC; SPLICEOSOMES; UNTRANSLATED REGIONS;

EID: 84859729407     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17456150     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1745-6150-7-11     Document Type: Review

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