The role of evolutionarily conserved sequences in alternative splicing at the 3' end of Drosophila melanogaster myosin heavy chain RNA

Genetics

Volumn 151, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 263-276

  Hodges, Dianne ^a,d   Cripps, Richard M ^b,d   O'Connor, Martin E ^c,d   Bernstein, Sanford I ^d  

^a Department of Pharmacokinetics and Drug Metabolism   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^c BIO 101 Inc   (United States)

^d SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MYOSIN HEAVY CHAIN; RNA;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA VIRILIS; EVOLUTION; GENE DELETION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MUSCLE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, INSECT; INTRONS; LARVA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAINS; PYRIMIDINES; RNA;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA VIRILIS; HEXAPODA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0032895580     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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