Determinants of exon-level evolutionary rates in Arabidopsis species.
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SUBMITTER: Wu GC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3399485 | biostudies-literature | 2012
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Determinants of exon-level evolutionary rates in Arabidopsis species.
Wu Gideon C-T GC Chen Feng-Chi FC
Evolutionary bioinformatics online 20120704
What causes the variations in evolutionary rates is fundamental to molecular evolution. However, in plants, the causes of within-gene evolutionary rate variations remain underexplored. Here we use the principal component regression to examine the contributions of eleven exon features to the within-gene variations in nonsynonymous substitution rate (d(N)), synonymous substitution rate (d(S)), and the d(N)/d(S) ratio in Arabidopsis species. We demonstrate that exon features related to protein stru ...[more]
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