Évolution à fine échelle des sites d'épissage des introns dans les gènes des oomycètes
Introns are portions of genes transcribed into messenger RNA, but removed during RNA splicing. In eukaryotes, they are called spliceosomal introns as they are removed by spliceosomes.  Introns allow many important processes such as alternative splicing, nonsense-mediated decay and functional-RNA coding. These roles leads to the question of the influence of natural selection on evolution of introns. We focus on mutations that are able to change gene products by modifing introns splice sites. These mutations seems to be an interesting topic as they can affect proteins, but there is currently no software to study them properly. The aim of our project was to design a method to detect and analyze changes in splice sites of spliceosomal introns.  We finally developed a method that locates the evolutionary events on splice sites of spliceosomal introns in a given species set. The method was performed on a set of oomycetes. Several detected events change splice sites and proteins, but there is also many events that seems to modify introns without affecting gene products.  Our method lacks a final step for thorough analysis of the collected events. However, the current method is easily reusable and automates genome analysis for the detection of events. The resulting files can then be analyzed in each study to answer specific questions.
Intron Eukaryote Splicing Gene Evolution