Waste not, want not - Transcript excess in multicellular eukaryotes

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 287-288

  Brosius, Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; EUKARYOTE; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; HUMAN; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 17644382616     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2005.02.014     Document Type: Article

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