Transposition and exon shuffling by group II intron RNA molecules in pieces

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 297, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 301-308

  Hiller, Reinhard ^a   Hetzer, Martin ^a   Schweyen, Rudolf J ^a   Mueller, Manfred W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Exon shuffling; Group II intron; RNA recombination; Splicing; Transposition

Indexed keywords

RECOMBINANT RNA;

ARTICLE; EXON; INTRON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SPLICING; TRANSACTIVATION; YEAST;

EID: 0034708329     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.2000.3582     Document Type: Article

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