Cyanobacterial tRNA(Leu)(UAA) group I introns have polyphyletic origin

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 156, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 293-298

  Rudi, Knut ^a   Jakobsen, Kjetill S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Cyanobacteria; Group I intron; tRNA

Indexed keywords

TRANSFER RNA;

ANTICODON; ARTICLE; CYANOBACTERIUM; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; EXON; INTRON; MICROCYSTIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CYANOBACTERIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHYLOGENY; RNA, TRANSFER, LEU;

CYANOBACTERIA; MICROCYSTIS; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 0031573022     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(97)00446-1     Document Type: Article

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