Transposon-derived and satellite-derived repetitive sequences play distinct functional roles in mammalian intron size expansion

Evolutionary Bioinformatics

Volumn 2012, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 301-319

  Wang, Dapeng ^a   Su, Yao ^a,b   Wang, Xumin ^a   Lei, Hongxing ^a   Yu, Jun ^a  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Intron size; Mammalian genomes; Satellite sequences; Transposable elements

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COW; ELEPHANT; FISH; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GUINEA PIG; HISTOGENESIS; HORSE; HUMAN; INTRON; LONG INTERSPERSED REPEAT; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; MACACA; MAMMAL; MOUSE; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; OPOSSUM; ORANG UTAN; PLATYPUS; PRIMATE; RAT; RETROPOSON; RODENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SHORT INTERSPERSED REPEAT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSPOSON; VERTEBRATE; ZEBRA FISH;

AMPHIBIA; CAVIA; MAMMALIA; PISCES; PRIMATES; RATTUS; RODENTIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84863627716     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11769343     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4137/EBO.S9758     Document Type: Article

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