ITS2 is a double-edged tool for eukaryote evolutionary comparisons

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 370-375

  Coleman, Annette W ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; RNA;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EUKARYOTE EVOLUTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TAXONOMY;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0037677692     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9525(03)00118-5     Document Type: Article

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