Lineage-specific sequence evolution and exon edge conservation partially explain the relationship between evolutionary rate and expression level in A. thaliana

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 3093-3106

  Bush, Stephen J ^a,b   Kover, Paula X ^a   Urrutia, Araxi O ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis thaliana; dN dS; lineage specific evolution; splice enhancer

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS LYRATA; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; THELLUNGIELLA PARVULA;

ADAPTATION; ARABIDOPSIS; EXON; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT GENOME;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ARABIDOPSIS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; GENOME, PLANT; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84932193767     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mec.13221     Document Type: Article

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