Birth and death of gene overlaps in vertebrates
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Between five and fourteen per cent of genes in the vertebrate genomes do overlap sharing some intronic and/or exonic sequence. It was observed that majority of these overlaps are not conserved among vertebrate lineages. Although seve...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2007-10-01
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Series: | BMC Evolutionary Biology |
Online Access: | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/7/193 |