Evolutionary Evidence for Alternative Structure in RNA Sequence Co-variation

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Ritz, Justin ^a   Martin, Joshua S ^a,b   Laederach, Alain ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL EVOLUTIONARY SYNTHESIS CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE STRUCTURE; BASE PAIRS; BOLTZMANN; CO-VARIATIONS; MULTIPLE CONFORMATIONS; RIBOSWITCHES; RNA SEQUENCES; SECONDARY STRUCTURES; SEQUENCE CONSERVATION; SINGLE SEQUENCES;

RNA;

TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; EVOLUTION; INTRON; RIBOSWITCH; RNA CONFORMATION; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 84880784978     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003152     Document Type: Article

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