Evolutionary dynamics of coding and non-coding transcriptomes

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 734-748

  Necsulea, Anamaria ^a   Kaessmann, Henrik ^b,c  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; MICRORNA; TRANSCRIPTOME; RNA; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

CHROMOSOME; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EFFECTIVE POPULATION SIZE; EPIGENETICS; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY RATE; EXON SKIPPING; GENE CONVERSION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC SELECTION; HEMIZYGOSITY; HUMAN; MAMMAL; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEX DIFFERENCE; THERIAN; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; VERTEBRATE; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; GENOMICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHENOTYPE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; EPIGENOMICS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENOMICS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; MAMMALS; PHENOTYPE; RNA; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTOME; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 84908214803     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg3802     Document Type: Review

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