Identifying the mechanisms of intron gain: progress and trends

Biology Direct

Volumn 7, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Yenerall, Paul ^a   Zhou, Leming ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b PA 15260   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolution; Gene structure; Intron; Intron evolution; Intron gain; Mechanism

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS; DNA END JOINING REPAIR; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; EUKARYOTE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENETICS; INTRON; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REVIEW; RNA SPLICING; SPLICEOSOME; TRANSPOSON;

BASE SEQUENCE; CELL NUCLEUS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA BREAKS, DOUBLE-STRANDED; DNA END-JOINING REPAIR; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EUKARYOTA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DUPLICATION; INTRONS; RNA SPLICE SITES; RNA SPLICING; SPLICEOSOMES;

EID: 84865845484     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17456150     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1745-6150-7-29     Document Type: Review

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