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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
2004-4-21
pubmed:abstractText
In Drosophila melanogaster and humans, members of three different ion-channel gene families share tandem exon duplications, which are alternatively spliced. In this article, I demonstrate that the duplication events that give rise to these mutually exclusive exons are unlikely to be ancestral but have probably occurred independently in different lineages. These events provide remarkable examples of evolutionary convergence in alternative splicing. The result has important implications for the analysis of regulation of alternative splicing using comparative genomics and our understanding of molecular evolution.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
0168-9525
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
20
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
171-6
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2004
pubmed:articleTitle
Evolutionary convergence of alternative splicing in ion channels.
pubmed:affiliation
Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Oxford, UK. copley@well.ox.ac.uk
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Review, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't