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Length and GC content variability of introns among teleostean genomes in the light of the metabolic rate hypothesis.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2014
Chaurasia Ankita, Tarallo Andrea, Bernà Luisa, Yagi Mitsuharu, Agnisola Claudio, D'Onofrio Giuseppe
Abstract excerpt
A comparative analysis of five teleostean genomes, namely zebrafish, medaka, three-spine stickleback, fugu and pufferfish was performed with the aim to highlight the nature of the forces driving both length and base composition of introns (i.e., bpi and GCi). An inter-genome approach using orthologous intronic sequences was carried out, analyzing independently both variables in pairwise comparisons. An average...
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