Importance of a single base pair for discrimination between intron-containing and intronless alleles by endonuclease I-BmoI

Current Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 973-978

  Edgell, David R ^a   Stanger, Matthew J ^a   Belfort, Marlene ^a  

^a WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

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EID: 0037850968     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(03)00340-3     Document Type: Article

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