Mobile introns: Retrohoming by complete reverse splicing

Current Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1999, Pages

  Eickbush, T H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL GENETICS; DNA SYNTHESIS; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; INTRON; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; RNA SPLICING;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0033552870     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(99)80034-7     Document Type: Article

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