Correcting for differential transcript coverage reveals a strong relationship between alternative splicing and organism complexity

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1402-1413

  Chen, Lu ^a,b   Bush, Stephen J ^a   Tovar Corona, Jaime M ^a   Castillo Morales, Atahualpa ^a   Urrutia, Araxi O ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

alternative splicing; expressed sequence tags; genome evolution; organism complexity; transcriptome evolution

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; ARTICLE; ASCERTAINMENT BIAS; BINDING SITE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL COUNT; CLADISTICS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EUKARYOTE; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE NUMBER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

TRANSCRIPTOME;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; EUKARYOTA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84901431283     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msu083     Document Type: Article

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