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Non-random retention of protein-coding overlapping genes in Metazoa

BACKGROUND: Although the overlap of transcriptional units occurs frequently in eukaryotic genomes, its evolutionary and biological significance remains largely unclear. Here we report a comparative analysis of overlaps between genes coding for well-annotated proteins in five metazoan genomes (human,...

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Autores principales: Soldà, Giulia, Suyama, Mikita, Pelucchi, Paride, Boi, Silvia, Guffanti, Alessandro, Rizzi, Ermanno, Bork, Peer, Tenchini, Maria Luisa, Ciccarelli, Francesca D
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2330155/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18416813
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-9-174