Type 2 rice metallothionein-like gene has two introns

Mitochondrial DNA

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 223-228

  Che, Wen Ming ^a   Hsieh, Hsing Mei ^a,b   Huang, P C ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b YUANPEI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Exonic ORF; intron; metallothionein

Indexed keywords

BASE PAIRING; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; EXON; INTRON; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; EXONS; GENES, PLANT; HUMANS; INTRONS; METALLOTHIONEIN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; ORYZA SATIVA; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANT ROOTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 0032033985     PISSN: 19401736     EISSN: 19401744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10425179809008455     Document Type: Article

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