No footprints of primordial introns in a eukaryotic genome

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 333-334

  Wolf, Yuri I ^a   Kondrashov, Fyodor A ^b   Koonin, Eugene V ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b Simons Rock College   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHLOROPLAST; CODON; EUKARYOTE; EVOLUTION; EXON; GENE; GENOME; INTRON; MITOCHONDRION; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SHORT SURVEY; SYMBIOSIS;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0034255318     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9525(00)02059-X     Document Type: Article

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