Ultraconserved elements in insect genomes: A highly conserved intronic sequence implicated in the control of homothorax mRNA splicing

Genome Research

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 800-808

  Glazov, Evgeny A ^a   Pheasant, Michael ^a   McGraw, Elizabeth A ^a   Bejerano, Gill ^b   Mattick, John S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR;

ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PSEUDOOBSCURA; EXON; FLY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME ANALYSIS; INSECT GENETICS; INTRON; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SPLICING; RNA STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA SPLICE SITES; RNA SPLICING; RNA, MESSENGER;

ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; DIPTERA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PSEUDOOBSCURA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 22344454794     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.3545105     Document Type: Article

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