Identification, characterization and molecular phylogeny of U12-dependent introns in the Arabidopsis thaliana genome

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 31, Issue 15, 2003, Pages 4561-4572

  Zhu, Wei ^a,c   Brendel, Volker ^a,b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Statistics Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence Iowa State University 2438 Osborn Dr Ames   (United States)

^c New Link Genetics Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; ADENOSINE RECEPTOR; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; PLANT RNA; SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; SODIUM PROTON EXCHANGE PROTEIN; U11/U12 SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BIOINFORMATICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; INTRON; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PLANT GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPLICEOSOME; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; RNA SPLICING;

ANIMALIA; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; EMBRYOPHYTA; EUKARYOTA;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DUPLICATION; GENOME, PLANT; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS, SMALL NUCLEAR; RNA SPLICE SITES; RNA, PLANT; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SODIUM-HYDROGEN ANTIPORTER;

EID: 0041660916     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkg492     Document Type: Article

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