title: Incorrectly predicted genes in rice?
abstract: Between one third and one half of the proposed rice genes appear to have no homologs in other species, including Arabidopsis. Compositional considerations, and a comparison of curated rice sequences with ex novo predictions, suggest that many or most of the putative genes without homologs may be false positive predictions, i.e., sequences that are never translated into functional proteins in vivo.
authors.affiliation: Laboratorio di Evoluzione Molecolare, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Villa comunale, 80121 Naples, Italy.
authors.forename: Stéphane
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Cruveiller
authors.forename: Kamel
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Jabbari
authors.forename: Oliver
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Clay
authors.forename: Giorgio
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Bernardi
mesh_terms: D001482:Base Composition / Q000235:genetics; D003062:Codon / Q000235:genetics; D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods; D018506:Gene Expression Regulation, Plant; D017343:Genes, Plant / Q000235:genetics*; D012275:Oryza / Q000235:genetics*; D010940:Plant Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results
chemical_list: D003062:Codon; D010940:Plant Proteins