Identification and analysis of unitary loss of long-established protein-coding genes in Poaceae shows evidences for biased gene loss and putatively functional transcription of relics Genome evolution and evolutionary systems biology

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Zhao, Yi ^a   Tang, Liang ^a,b   Li, Zhe ^c   Jin, Jinpu ^a   Luo, Jingchu ^a   Gao, Ge ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

Author keywords

Competitive endogenous RNA; Poaceae; Unitary gene loss

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOMICS; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; MONOCOTYLEDON; MUTATION; PROTEIN; RNA; GENETIC ANALYSIS; IDENTIFICATION KEY;

BRACHYPODIUM; POACEAE; ZEA MAYS;

TRANSCRIPTOME;

CLASSIFICATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GENOMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; PLANT GENE; POACEAE;

EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, PLANT; GENOMICS; PHYLOGENY; POACEAE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84929149194     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12862-015-0345-x     Document Type: Article

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