The four Rs of RNA-directed evolution

Nature Genetics

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 19-25

  Herbert, Alan ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; RNA;

EPIGENETICS; EXON; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GENOME; HUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID PROBE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA EDITING; RNA PROCESSING; RNA REPLICATION; RNA SPLICING; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; RNA TRANSLATION;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE SILENCING; HUMANS; RNA; RNA, ANTISENSE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0346727342     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1275     Document Type: Review

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