Identification of a group I intron in the nuclear small subunit rDNA of Pseudohalonectria lignicola

Current Microbiology

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 84-88

  Chen, Weidong ^a   Shearer, Carol A ^b   Leland Crane, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS DNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; GENE AMPLIFICATION; INTRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ASCOMYCOTA; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 0029817454     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002849900079     Document Type: Article

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