Inferring the evolutionary history of primate microRNA binding sites: Overcoming motif counting biases

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1894-1901

  Simkin, Alfred T ^a,b   Bailey, Jeffrey A ^a   Gao, Fen Biao ^a   Jensen, Jeffrey D ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

miRNA evolution; molecular evolution; molecular phylogeny; motif turnover; parsimony; regulatory network

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; 3' UNTRANSLATED REGION;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PRIMATE; RNA SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MICRORNAS; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATES; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84903722927     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msu129     Document Type: Article

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