Splicing and the Evolution of Proteins in Mammals

It is often supposed that a protein's rate of evolution and its amino acid content are determined by the function and anatomy of the protein. Here we examine an alternative possibility, namely that the requirement to specify in the unprocessed RNA, in the vicinity of intron–exon boundaries, inf...

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Main Authors: Parmley, Joanna L, Urrutia, Araxi O, Potrzebowski, Lukasz, Kaessmann, Henrik, Hurst, Laurence D
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2007
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1790955/