GC content evolution in coding regions of angiosperm genomes: A unifying hypothesis

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 263-270

  Glémin, Sylvain ^a   Clément, Yves ^a,b   David, Jacques ^b   Ressayre, Adrienne ^c  

^a INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^b UMR AGAP   (France)

^c INRA Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique   (France)

Author keywords

Angiosperm genomes; GC biased gene conversion; GC content; Intron exon structure; Methylation; Recombination

Indexed keywords

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANGIOSPERM; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA METHYLATION; GENE CONVERSION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; NULL HYPOTHESIS; PLANT GENOME; PLANT MODEL; POACEAE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REVIEW; GENETICS; METABOLISM; OPEN READING FRAME;

MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

NUCLEOSOME;

ANGIOSPERMS; BASE COMPOSITION; DNA METHYLATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, PLANT; NUCLEOSOMES; OPEN READING FRAMES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 84903440684     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: 13624555     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2014.05.002     Document Type: Review

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