GENE STRUCTURE AND ORGANIZATION IN CAENORHABDITIS-ELEGANS

Authors
BLUMENTHAL T SPIETH J
Citation
T. Blumenthal et J. Spieth, GENE STRUCTURE AND ORGANIZATION IN CAENORHABDITIS-ELEGANS, Current opinion in genetics & development, 6(6), 1996, pp. 692-698
Citations number
32
Categorie Soggetti
Biology,"Cell Biology","Biothechnology & Applied Migrobiology","Genetics & Heredity
Journal title
Current opinion in genetics & development → ACNP
ISSN journal
0959437X
Volume
6
Issue
6
Year of publication
1996
Pages
692 - 698
Database
ISI
SICI code
0959-437X(1996)6:6<692:GSAOIC>2.0.ZU;2-V
Abstract
The sequencing of the 100 Mb Caenorhabditis elegans genome - containin g similar to 14 000 genes - is similar to 50% complete. One of its mos t interesting features is its compactness; introns and intergenic dist ances are unusually small and, surprisingly, similar to 25% of genes a re contained in polycistronic transcription units (operons) with only similar to 100 bp between genes.