The origin of recent introns: Transposons?

Genome Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2004, Pages

  Roy, Scott W ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; MESSENGER RNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; BRUGIA MALAYI; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DNA STRUCTURE; GENE CONVERSION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HUMAN; INTRON; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SPLICING; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SHORT INTERSPERSED REPEAT; SHORT SURVEY; SPLICEOSOME; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; INTRONS; SPLICEOSOMES;

NEMATODA; TRANSPOSONS;

EID: 19944429392     PISSN: 14656906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2004-5-12-251     Document Type: Short Survey

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