A common core of secondary structure of the internal transcribed spacer 2 (ITS2) throughout the Eukaryota

RNA

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 361-364

  Schultz, Jörg ^a   Maisel, Stefanie ^a   Gerlach, Daniel ^a   Müller, Tobias ^a   Wolf, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Internal transcribed spacer 2; Phylogenetics; RNA; Structure

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 2;

ARTICLE; COELENTERATE; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; EUKARYOTE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC MARKER; LARGE SCALE PRODUCTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ALGAE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; FUNGI; GENETIC MARKERS; INVERTEBRATES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHYLOGENY; PLANTS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ALGAE; CHLOROPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; VOLVOCALES;

EID: 15444361843     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.7204505     Document Type: Article

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