Article
Preliminary assessment of the impact of microRNA-mediated regulation on coding sequence evolution in mammals.
Journal of molecular evolution - 1 Aug 2006
Hurst Laurence D
Abstract excerpt
Despite prior claims to the contrary, several lines of evidence suggest that selection acts on synonymous mutations in mammals. What might be the mechanisms for such selection? Here I attempt to quantify the constraints on the evolution of the coding sequence resulting from regulation of mRNA by microRNAs (miRNAs) that antisense-bind to the coding region of mRNAs. I employ a set of genes recently experimentally...
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