A secondary structural model of the 28S rRNA expansion segments D2 and D3 for chalcidoid wasps (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea)

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1593-1608

  Gillespie, Joseph J ^a   Munro, James B ^b   Heraty, John M ^b   Yoder, Matthew J ^a   Owen, Albert K ^b   Carmichael, Andrew E ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

28S; Chalcidoid; Expansion segment; Homology; Multiple sequence alignment; Ribosome; rRNA; Secondary structure

Indexed keywords

RNA 28S;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYDROGEN BOND; MODEL; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; WASP;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MODELS, STRUCTURAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 28S; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WASPS;

CHALCIDOIDEA; HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 20444379556     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msi152     Document Type: Article

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