Splice-junction elements and intronic sequences regulate alternative splicing of the Drosophila myosin heavy chain gene transcript

Genetics

Volumn 147, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 725-741

  Standiford, David M ^a   Davis, Mary Beth ^a   Sun, Weitao ^a   Emerson Jr , Charles P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MYOSIN HEAVY CHAIN;

ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA; EXON; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; INTRON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; EXONS; INTRONS; MUSCLES; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 0030777330     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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