Identification and analysis of the u6 small nuclear RNA gene from Entamoeba histolytica

Gene

Volumn 180, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 37-42

  Miranda, Raúl ^a   Salgado, Luis M ^a,b   Sánchez López, Rosana ^a   Alagón, Alejandro ^a   Lizardi, Paul M ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Amoeba; Intron; Phylogenetics; Splicing

Indexed keywords

POLYADENYLATED RNA; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA;

ARTICLE; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; INTRON; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SPLICING; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; SPLICEOSOME; STRUCTURAL GENE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; EVOLUTION; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, PROTOZOAN; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, PROTOZOAN; RNA, SMALL NUCLEAR; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPLICEOSOMES;

ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0030597341     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(96)00397-6     Document Type: Article

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