Consensus translational initiation sites of marine invertebrate phyla

Biological Bulletin

Volumn 195, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 251-254

  Mankad, Raj V ^a   Gimelbrant, Alexander A ^a   Mcclintock, Timothy S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CLONING; CODON; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; INVERTEBRATE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; TRANSLATION INITIATION;

EID: 0032458724     PISSN: 00063185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1543135     Document Type: Article

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