Introns in higher plant genes

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 47, Issue 17, 2002, Pages 1409-1415

  Xie, Xianzhi ^a   Wu, Naihu ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Expression and regulation of genes; Intron; Pre mRNA splicing

Indexed keywords

HETEROGENEOUS NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; EUKARYOTE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HIGHER PLANT; INTRON; NONHUMAN; PLANT GENETICS; REVIEW;

EMBRYOPHYTA; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0036760074     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1360/02tb9311     Document Type: Review

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