Intron gain and loss in the evolution of the conserved eukaryotic recombination machinery

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 30, Issue 23, 2002, Pages 5175-5181

  Hartung, Frank ^a   Blattner, Frank R ^a   Puchta, Holger ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PLANT GENETICS AND CROP PLANT RESEARCH IPK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; RECA PROTEIN;

APICOMPLEXA; ARABIDOPSIS; BACTERIAL GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUKARYOTE; GENE DELETION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INTRON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; COPRINUS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; ESTERASES; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; HUMANS; INTRONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PHYLOGENY; RAD51 RECOMBINASE; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE DELETION;

ANIMALIA; APICOMPLEXA; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; INSERTION SEQUENCES; PROTISTA;

EID: 0036924976     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkf649     Document Type: Review

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