Complex spliceosomal organization ancestral to extant eukaryotes

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1053-1066

  Collins, Lesley ^a   Penny, David ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Ancestral eukaryote; snRNA; Spliceosome; Splicing

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; EUKARYOTE; EVOLUTION; INTRON; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; RNA CAPPING; RNA SPLICING; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SPLICEOSOME;

EUKARYOTIC CELLS; INTRONS; PHYLOGENY; RNA, MESSENGER; SPLICEOSOMES;

EID: 16344385067     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msi091     Document Type: Article

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