Discovery notes

U12 intron positions are more strongly conserved between animals and plants than U2 intron positions

Malay K Basu¹, Wojciech Makalowski², Igor B Rogozin¹ and Eugene V Koonin¹^*

¹ National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda MD, USA

² Institute of Bioinformatics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Muenster, Germany

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Biology Direct 2008, 3:19 doi:10.1186/1745-6150-3-19

Published: 14 May 2008

Additional file 1:

alignments of protein sequences of orthologous proteins from Arabidopsis and human employed for this analysis.

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