Centripetal modules and ancient introns

Gene

Volumn 238, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 85-91

  Roy, Scott William ^a   Nosaka, Michiko ^b   De Souza, Sandro J ^c   Gilbert, Walter ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SASEBO NATIONAL COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c LUDWIG INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Evolution; Exon; Progenote

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; EXON; INTRON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, FUNCTION AND VARIABILITY; SHORT SURVEY; VERTEBRATE;

EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032862380     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(99)00292-9     Document Type: Article

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