Frequent intron loss in the White gene: A cautionary tale for phylogeneticists [6]

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 362-366

  Krzywinski, Jaroslaw ^a   Besansky, Nora J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

Diptera; Intron loss; Phylogeny; Spliceosomal introns; White gene

Indexed keywords

GENE LOSS; INTRON; LEPIDOPTERA; LETTER; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE CONSTRUCTION METHOD; PHYLOGENY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

DIPTERA; LEPIDOPTERA;

EID: 0036187559     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a004091     Document Type: Letter

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