The recent origins of introns

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 1991, Pages 470-477

  Palmer, Jeffrey D ^a   Logsdon Jr , John M ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BACTERIUM; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL ORGANELLE; EVOLUTION; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; INTRON; PHYLOGENY; PLANT; REVIEW; RNA SPLICING; STRUCTURAL GENE;

ANIMAL; ANIMALS; BACTERIA; CELL NUCLEUS; EVOLUTION; EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, STRUCTURAL; INTRONS; ORGANELLES; PHYLOGENY; PLANTS; RNA SPLICING; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0026276082     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-437X(05)80194-7     Document Type: Article

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57. Trans-Splicing of RNA
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