Interspecies conservation of gene order and intron-exon structure in a genomic locus of high gene density and complexity in Plasmodium

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 2059-2068

  Van Lin, Leonard H M ^b   Pace, Tomasino ^a   Janse, Chris J ^b   Birago, Cecilia ^a   Ramesar, Jai ^b   Picci, Leonardo ^a   Ponzi, Marta ^a   Waters, Andrew P ^b  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTIG;

ALGORITHM; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 10; CHROMOSOME 5; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY; EXON; GAMETOCYTE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE LOCUS; GENE ORDER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; INTRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOA; RODENTIA;

EID: 0035873363     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/29.10.2059     Document Type: Article

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