A tandem array of 5S ribosomal RNA genes in Pythium irregulare

Gene

Volumn 186, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 155-159

  Belkhiri, Abbes ^a   Intengan, Hope ^a   Klassen, Glen R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

5S rRNA spacer; Oomycetes; Pseudogene; rDNA

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL RNA; REPETITIVE DNA; RIBOSOME DNA; SPACER DNA;

ARTICLE; FUNGAL GENETICS; GENE LIBRARY; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OOMYCETES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PSEUDOGENE; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RNA GENE; RNA SEQUENCE; TANDEM REPEAT;

BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENES, FUNGAL; GENOMIC LIBRARY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PSEUDOGENES; PYTHIUM; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 5S;

ANIMALIA; FUNGI; OOMYCETES; PROTISTA; PYTHIUM IRREGULARE;

EID: 0031027780     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(96)00662-2     Document Type: Article

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