Patterns of exon-intron architecture variation of genes in eukaryotic genomes.

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Published in BMC Genomics on January 24, 2009

Authors

Liucun Zhu1, Ying Zhang, Wen Zhang, Sihai Yang, Jian-Qun Chen, Dacheng Tian

Author Affiliations

1: State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Department of Biology, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, PR China. zhuliucun@gmail.com

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