Evolution of the unspliced transcriptome

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Engelhardt, Jan ^a   Stadler, Peter F ^a,b,c,d,e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MATHEMATICS IN THE SCIENCES   (Germany)

^c FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR CELL THERAPY AND IMMUNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^f SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; PROTEIN; RNA; RODENT;

MAMMALIA;

CHROMATIN; LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNTRANSLATED REGION;

ANIMAL; CHROMATIN; EVOLUTION; EXON; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; GENOME; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; INTRON; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; RNA SPLICING; UNTRANSLATED REGION;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CHROMATIN; EXONS; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENOME; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; INTRONS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; RNA SPLICING; RNA, LONG NONCODING; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNTRANSLATED REGIONS;

EID: 84939517511     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12862-015-0437-7     Document Type: Article

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