Descubrimiento de elementos funcionales en 12 genomas de Drosophila utilizando firmas evolutivas

Alexander Stark1, Michael F Lin, Pouya Kheradpour

  • 1The Broad Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02140, USA.

Nature
|November 13, 2007
PubMed
Resumen

La genómica comparativa de 12 especies de Drosophila revela firmas evolutivas para el descubrimiento de elementos funcionales. Este enfoque identifica nuevos genes, motivos reguladores y genes de microARN, mejorando la precisión de la anotación del genoma.

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