Gene clusters and polycistronic transcription in eukaryotes

BioEssays

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 480-487

  Blumenthal, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DROSOPHILA; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PLANT; REVIEW; TRYPANOSOMA;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DROSOPHILA; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OPERON; PLANTS; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRYPANOSOMA;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA; NEMATODA; TRYPANOSOMA;

EID: 0032103829     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1521-1878(199806)20:6<480::AID-BIES6>3.0.CO;2-Q     Document Type: Review

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