The genomic signature of splicing-coupled selection differs between long and short introns

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 21-24

  Farlow, Ashley ^a,b   Dolezal, Marlies ^a   Hua, Liushuai ^a,c   Schlötterer, Christian ^a  

^a Institute für Populationsgenetik   (Austria)

^b GREGOR MENDEL INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PLANT BIOLOGY   (Austria)

^c NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Genome evolution; Intron length; Selection

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRAND; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOMICS; INTRON; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SPLICING;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME; HUMANS; INTRONS; MODELS, GENETIC; RNA SPLICING; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84862901470     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msr201     Document Type: Article

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