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From the following article:

Alternative splicing and RNA selection pressure — evolutionary consequences for eukaryotic genomes

Yi Xing & Christopher Lee

Nature Reviews Genetics 7, 499-509 (July 2006)

doi:10.1038/nrg1896

Figure 1 - Alternative splicing and RNA selection pressure |[mdash]| evolutionary consequences for eukaryotic genomes

Figure 1

Patterns of alternative splicing.

Figure 2 - Alternative splicing and RNA selection pressure |[mdash]| evolutionary consequences for eukaryotic genomes

Figure 2

Defining the conservation of alternative splicing.

Figure 3 - Alternative splicing and RNA selection pressure |[mdash]| evolutionary consequences for eukaryotic genomes

Figure 3

Creation of a new functional alternative exon of p75TNFR from an Alu element.

Figure 4 - Alternative splicing and RNA selection pressure |[mdash]| evolutionary consequences for eukaryotic genomes

Figure 4

Conservation of human constitutive and alternatively spliced exons in mouse orthologues.

Figure 5 - Alternative splicing and RNA selection pressure |[mdash]| evolutionary consequences for eukaryotic genomes

Figure 5

Alternative splicing opens neutral paths for an accelerated rate of new exon creation.

Table 1 - Alternative splicing and RNA selection pressure |[mdash]| evolutionary consequences for eukaryotic genomes

Table 1

Characteristics of ancestral alternatively spliced exons