Evidence for deep phylogenetic conservation of exonic splice-related constraints: Splice-Related skews at exonic ends in the brown alga Ectocarpus are common and resemble those seen in humans

Genome Biology and Evolution

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1731-1745

  Wu, Xian Ming ^a   Tronholm, Ana ^a,c   Cáceres, Eva Fernández ^a   Tovar Corona, Jaime M ^a   Chen, Lu ^b   Urrutia, Araxi O ^a   Hurst, Laurence D ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ectocarpus; ESE; Splicing; Translational selection

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; BROWN ALGA; CODON; DROSOPHILA; ECTOCARPUS; ENHANCER REGION; ESE; EXON; GENETICS; HUMAN; INTRON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; RNA SPLICING; SPLICING; TRANSLATIONAL SELECTION;

ECTOCARPUS; ESE; SPLICING; TRANSLATIONAL SELECTION;

ANIMALS; CODON; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DROSOPHILA; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; HUMANS; INTRONS; PHAEOPHYTA; PHYLOGENY; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA SPLICE SITES; RNA SPLICING;

EID: 84892511438     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17596653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evt115     Document Type: Article

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