The limited universe of exons.
The catalogue of mosaic proteins showing evidence of exon-shuffling continues to expand. The repeated use of exon modules suggests that current protein diversity could have been generated from a finite set of such exon modules, and that the size and character of this underlying exon universe can still be glimpsed in extant proteins.
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Department of Biology, Yale University, Osborn Memorial Laboratories, New Haven, Connecticut 06511.
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D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D005091:Exons; D005796:Genes; D014644:Genetic Variation; D005810:Multigene Family; D011506:Proteins / Q000235:genetics
D011506:Proteins