Independent effects of alternative splicing and structural constraint on the evolution of mammalian coding exons

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 187-193

  Chen, Feng Chi ^a,b,c   Pan, Chia Lin ^a   Lin, Hsuan Yu ^a  

^a NATIONAL HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTES   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Intrinsically disordered region; Nonsynonymous to synonymous substitution rate ratio

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ALTERNATIVELY SPLICED EXON; ARTICLE; CONSTITUTIVELY SPLICED EXON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY; EXON; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CODE; HUMAN; INTRINSICALLY DISORDERED REGION; MAMMALIAN GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DATABASES, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; HUMANS; MACACA MULATTA; MAMMALS; MICE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84862842119     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msr182     Document Type: Article

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