Exon junction sequences as cryptic splice sites: Implications for intron origin

Current Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 505-509

  Sadusky, Terrie ^a   Newman, Andrew J ^b   Dibb, Nicholas J ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; PRIMER DNA;

ANIMAL; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EXON; GENETICS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSARUM; PLASMID; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; ARABIDOPSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PHYSARUM; PLASMIDS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SPLICE SITES; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ANIMALIA; ARABIDOPSIS; INSERTION SEQUENCES; PHYSARUM;

EID: 1842535132     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2004.02.063     Document Type: Article

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