The Sex-lethal early splicing pattern uses a default mechanism dependent on the alternative 5' splice sites

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 1674-1681

  Zhu, Chang ^a   Urano, Jun ^a   Bell, Leslie R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA; EXON; INTRON; LETHAL GENE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; RNA SPLICING;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0031029144     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.17.3.1674     Document Type: Article

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