The most deeply conserved noncoding sequences in plants serve similar functions to those in vertebrates despite large differences in evolutionary rates

Plant Cell

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 946-961

  Burgess, Diane ^a   Freeling, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLANT RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VERTEBRATE;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHYLOGENY; PLANTS; RNA, PLANT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 84899140736     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: 1532298X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.113.121905     Document Type: Article

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