Functional universality and evolutionary diversity: Insights from the structure of the ribosome

Structure

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 679-684

  Yonath, Ada ^a,b   Franceschi, Francois ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK UNIT FOR STRUCTURAL MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0032526411     PISSN: 09692126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0969-2126(98)00069-0     Document Type: Article

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