Evolution: Alternative splicing of RNA rewires signaling in different tissues, may contribute to species differences

Friday, December 21, 2012 - 08:31 in Biology & Nature

When genes were first discovered, the canonical view was that each gene encodes a unique protein. However, biologists later found that segments of genes can be combined in different ways, giving rise to many different proteins.

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