Spliced-leader trans-splicing in freshwater planarians

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 2048-2054

  Zayas, Ricardo M ^a   Bold, Tyler D ^a   Newmark, Phillip A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Dugesia japonica; Planarian; Platyhelminthes; Schmidtea mediterranea; Spliced leader RNA; trans splicing

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; RNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA SPLICING; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANS SPLICING; TURBELLARIA;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FRESH WATER; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLANARIANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SPLICING; RNA, HELMINTH; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; CESTODA; CHORDATA; DUGESIA JAPONICA; EUKARYOTA; PLANARIA; PLATYHELMINTHES; POLYCLADIDA; PROTOZOA; SCHMIDTEA MEDITERRANEA; TREMATODA; TRICLADIDA; TURBELLARIA;

EID: 24744437773     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msi200     Document Type: Article

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