Article
The limited universe of exons.
Current opinion in genetics & development - 1 Dec 1991
Dorit R L, Gilbert W
Abstract excerpt
The catalogue of mosaic proteins showing evidence of exon-shuffling continues to expand. The repeated use of exon modules suggests that current protein diversity could have been generated from a finite set of such exon modules, and that the size and character of this underlying exon universe can...
Topics
- Animals
- Biological Evolution
- Exons
- Genes
- Genetic Variation
- Multigene Family
- Proteins