Splicing removes the Caenorhabditis elegans transposon Tc1 from most mutant pre-mRNAs

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 422-429

  Rushforth, Alice M ^a,b   Anderson, Philip ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EUKARYOTA;

DINUCLEOTIDE; MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GENE INSERTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; INTRON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA GENE; RNA SPLICING; RNA STRUCTURE; SPONTANEOUS MUTATION; TRANSPOSON;

ALLELES; ANIMAL; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA SPLICING; RNA, HELMINTH; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0029655320     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.16.1.422     Document Type: Article

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