Minimal introns are not "junk"

Genome Research

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1185-1189

  Yu, Jun ^a,b,c   Yang, Zhiyong ^d   Kibukawa, Miho ^a   Paddock, Marcia ^a   Passey, Douglas A ^a   Wong, Gane Ka Shu ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUKARYOTE EVOLUTION; GENE DELETION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INSERTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRON; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA SPLICING;

EUKARYOTA; INSERTION SEQUENCES;

EID: 0037224552     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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