Structural characteristics and possible horizontal transfer of group I introns between closely related plant pathogenic fungi

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 114-126

  Holst Jensen, Arne ^a,b   Vaage, Marianne ^a   Schumacher, Trond ^a   Johansen, Steinar ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

Group I ribozymes; Helotiales; Intron mobility; P14; Phylogeny congruence tests; Sclerotiniaceae

Indexed keywords

RIBOZYME;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC ANALYSIS; INTRON; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

BOTRYTIS; DUMONTINIA; ENCOELIA; FUNGI; GROVESINIA; HELOTIALES; MYRIOSCLEROTINIA; MYRIOSCLEROTINIA CARICIS-AMPULLACEAE; SCLEROTINIA; SCLEROTINIACEAE;

EID: 0032960288     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a026031     Document Type: Article

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