Functional analysis of an intron 3' splice site in Caenorhabditis elegans

RNA

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 380-388

  Zhang, Hongbing ^a   Blumenthal, Thomas ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Caenorhabditis elegans; introns; splice site selection

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; CYTIDINE; DNA; MESSENGER RNA; RNA PRECURSOR; URIDINE;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; INTRON; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA SPLICING; RNA, MESSENGER;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 0029851579     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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