An exceptional group-I intron-like insertion in the SSU rDNA of lichen mycobionts

Current Genetics

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 536-541

  Grube, M ^a   Gutmann, B ^a   Arup, U ^a   De Los Rios, A ^a   Mattsson, J E ^b   Wedin, M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

5' Splice site; Group I intron; Insertion; Lichen forming fungi; SSU rDNA

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA;

ARTICLE; FUNGUS; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; INTRON; LICHENS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGI; INTRONS; LICHENS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

FUNGI; LECANORACEAE; PARMELIACEAE; TETRAHYMENA;

EID: 0032998403     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002940050450     Document Type: Article

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