Putative Secondary Structures of Unusually Long Strepsipteran SSU rRNAs and Its Phylogenetic Implications

Molecules and Cells

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 191-199

  Choe, Chong Pyo ^b   Hwang, Ui Wook ^a,b   Kim, Won ^b  

^a Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Expansion Segment; Molecular Phylogeny; Ribosomal DNA; Secondary Structure; Strepsiptera Problem

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CONFORMATION; GENETICS; INSECT; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; INSECTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL;

EID: 0033616960     PISSN: 10168478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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