The complex intron landscape and massive intron invasion in a picoeukaryote provides insights into intron evolution

Genome Biology and Evolution

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 2393-2401

  Verhelst, Bram ^a,b   Van De Peer, Yves ^a,b,c   Rouzé, Pierre ^a,b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Intron evolution; Intron gain; Introner elements; Mamiellophyceae; Micromonas

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GREEN ALGA; INTRON; INTRON EVOLUTION; INTRON GAIN; INTRONER ELEMENTS; MAMIELLOPHYCEAE; MICROMONAS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT GENOME; SPLICEOSOME; TRANSPOSON;

INTRON EVOLUTION; INTRON GAIN; INTRONER ELEMENTS; MAMIELLOPHYCEAE; MICROMONAS;

ARABIDOPSIS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CHLOROPHYTA; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, PLANT; INTRONS; PHYLOGENY; SPLICEOSOMES;

EID: 84892520229     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17596653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evt189     Document Type: Article

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