The excess of 5′ introns in eukaryotic genomes

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 33, Issue 20, 2005, Pages 6522-6527

  Lin, Kui ^a   Zhang, Da Yong ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE;

ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CANDIDA GLABRATA; DEBARYOMYCES HANSENII; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENE LOSS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENOME; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HONEYBEE; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; HUMAN; INTRON; KLUYVEROMYCES; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; PAN TROGLODYTES; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RNA SPLICING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SOMATIC CELL GENETICS; YARROWIA LIPOLYTICA; ANIMAL; GENE DELETION; GENETICS; GENOMICS;

ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; APIS MELLIFERA; ARABIDOPSIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CANDIDA GLABRATA; DEBARYOMYCES HANSENII; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; EUKARYOTA; KLUYVEROMYCES; PAN TROGLODYTES; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; YARROWIA LIPOLYTICA;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GENOME; GENOMICS; HUMANS; INTRONS; SEQUENCE DELETION;

EID: 29144499304     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gki970     Document Type: Article

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