Evidence of Splice Signal Migration from Exon to Intron during Intron Evolution

Current Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 24, 2003, Pages 2170-2174

  Sverdlov, Alexander V ^a   Rogozin, Igor B ^a   Babenko, Vladimir N ^a   Koonin, Eugene V ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

EUKARYOTA; INSERTION SEQUENCES;

EID: 0345772209     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2003.12.003     Document Type: Article

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