Self-splicing of the chlamydomonas chloroplast psbA introns

Plant Cell

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 1991, Pages 1095-1107

  Herrin, David L ^a   Bao, Yijia ^a   Thompson, Andrew J ^a   Chen, Yu Fen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL DNA; PROTOZOAL RNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDOMONAS; CHLOROPLAST; DNA PROBE; GENETICS; INTRON; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RNA SPLICING;

ANIMAL; BASE SEQUENCE; CHLAMYDOMONAS; CHLOROPLASTS; DNA PROBES; DNA, PROTOZOAN; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA SPLICING; RNA, PROTOZOAN; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.;

EID: 0026234675     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.3.10.1095     Document Type: Article

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