Volatile evolution of long noncoding RNA repertoires: Mechanisms and biological implications

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 439-452

  Kapusta, Aurélie ^a   Feschotte, Cédric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME; TRANSPOSON;

EXON; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; HUMAN; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TRANSPOSON; VERTEBRATE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; METABOLISM;

VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; HUMANS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA, LONG NONCODING; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84921908289     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: 13624555     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2014.08.004     Document Type: Review

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