A silent trans-splicing signal in the cuticlin-encoding gene of the plant-parasitic nematode Meloidogyne artiellia

Gene

Volumn 170, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 261-265

  De Giorgi, Carla ^a   De Luca, Francesca ^b   Lamberti, Franco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Gene structure and expression; Phytoparasite; Sequence determination

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CUTICLE; DNA FLANKING REGION; EGG; EXON; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; INTRON; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING;

EID: 0029914522     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-1119(95)00894-2     Document Type: Article

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