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Functional and evolutionary analysis of alternatively spliced genes is consistent with an early eukaryotic origin of alternative splicing

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Title
Functional and evolutionary analysis of alternatively spliced genes is consistent with an early eukaryotic origin of alternative splicing
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BMC Ecology and Evolution, October 2007
DOI 10.1186/1471-2148-7-188
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Authors

Manuel Irimia, Jakob Lewin Rukov, David Penny, Scott William Roy

Abstract

Alternative splicing has been reported in various eukaryotic groups including plants, apicomplexans, diatoms, amoebae, animals and fungi. However, whether widespread alternative splicing has evolved independently in the different eukaryotic groups or was inherited from their last common ancestor, and may therefore predate multicellularity, is still unknown. To better understand the origin and evolution of alternative splicing and its usage in diverse organisms, we studied alternative splicing in 12 eukaryotic species, comparing rates of alternative splicing across genes of different functional classes, cellular locations, intron/exon structures and evolutionary origins.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 3 3%
Brazil 2 2%
Spain 2 2%
Switzerland 1 1%
New Zealand 1 1%
Australia 1 1%
Germany 1 1%
Luxembourg 1 1%
Unknown 81 87%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 23 25%
Researcher 20 22%
Student > Master 12 13%
Student > Bachelor 8 9%
Professor > Associate Professor 6 6%
Other 12 13%
Unknown 12 13%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 51 55%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 13 14%
Computer Science 3 3%
Environmental Science 2 2%
Medicine and Dentistry 2 2%
Other 5 5%
Unknown 17 18%
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