Fugu intron oversize reveals the presence of U15 snoRNA coding sequences in some introns of the ribosomal protein S3 gene

Genome Research

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 1227-1231

  Crosio, Claudia ^a   Cecconi, Francesco ^a   Mariottini, Paolo ^b   Cesareni, Gianni ^a   Brenner, Sydney ^c   Amaldi, Francesco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^c KING'S COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; FISH; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRON; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; XENOPUS;

EID: 0030448150     PISSN: 10549803     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.6.12.1227     Document Type: Article

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