A Group I intron in the nuclear small subunit rRNA gene of Cryptendoxyla hypophloia, an ascomycetous fungus: Evidence for a new major class of Group I introns

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 493-500

  Suh, Sung Oui ^a   Jones, Kevin G ^a,b   Blackwell, Meredith ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Comparative sequence analysis; Cryptendoxyla hypophloia; Group I intron ribosomal RNA gene

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; BASE PAIRING; FUNGUS; GENE SEQUENCE; INTRON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIBOSOME;

ASCOMYCOTA; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, FUNGAL; INTRONS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHYLOGENY; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

ASCOMYCOTA; CRYPTENDOXYLA HYPOPHLOIA; FUNGI;

EID: 0032959496     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00006493     Document Type: Article

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