forsdyke wrote:
>> Mike Syvanen wrote:
> >
> > Do birds have fewer introns or (or possibly smaller introns) than do
> > mammals?
>> There was a note in Nature on this topic about a year ago.
Hugues & Hugues (1995) "Small genomes for better flyers"
Nature 377: 391
see also:
Duret, Mouchiroud, Gautier (1995) "Statistical analysis of
vertebrate sequences reveals that long genes are scarce in
GC-rich isochores." J Mol Evol 40: 308-317
where they looked at length of introns in several mammals
and chicken.
hope this helps
Marc
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