New evidence for the genomic tag hypothesis: Archaeal CCA-adding enzymes and tDNA substrates

Biological Bulletin

Volumn 196, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 331-334

  Maizels, Nancy ^a   Weiner, Alan M ^a   Yue, Dongxian ^a   Shi, Pei Yong ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOMIC TAG; HYPOTHESIS; TRANSFER DEOXYRIBONUCLEIC ACID;

ARCHAEA;

EID: 0033153330     PISSN: 00063185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1542963     Document Type: Conference Paper

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