[Taxacom] about alternative splicing

[Peter Uetz]

Most people use genomic DNA for phylogenomics studies (not RNA or cDNA) so I suspect splicing is irrelevant in most cases.


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> Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2017 08:00:40 +0300
> From: igor pavlinov <ipvl2008 at mail.ru>
> To: TAXACOM <taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu>
> Subject: [Taxacom] about alternative splicing
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> Dear all,
> does anybody know if there are any discussions of possible impact of the effect of alternative splicing onto the character concept among phylogenomics practitioners? 
> As far as I know, they routinely consider each site in DNA seqeunce as a separate character to be used in taxonomic investigations.
> Do they or not?
> Thanks to all who may wish to respond.
> Igor
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