Conserved and species-specific alternative splicing in mammalian genomes

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Alternative splicing has been shown to be one of the major evolutionary mechanisms for protein diversification and proteome expansion, since a considerable fraction of alternative splicing events appears to be species- or lineage-spe...

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Main Authors: Favorov Alexander V, Neverov Alexey D, Nurtdinov Ramil N, Mironov Andrey A, Gelfand Mikhail S
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2007-12-01
Series:BMC Evolutionary Biology
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/7/249