Widespread occurrence of spliceosomal introns in the rDNA genes of ascomycetes

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 1971-1984

  Bhattacharya, Debashish ^a   Lutzoni, François ^b   Reeb, Valérie ^b,c   Simon, Dawn ^a   Nason, John ^a   Fernandez, Fernando ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Ascomycetes; Group I introns; Lichen symbiosis; Proto splice site; rDNA; Reverse splicing; Spliceosomal intron origin

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA;

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; INTRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SPLICEOSOME; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

EID: 0033637955     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a026298     Document Type: Article

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