Sequencing and analysis of the internal transcribed spacers (ITSs) and coding regions in the EcoR I fragment of the ribosomal DNA of the Japanese pond frog Rana nigromaculata

Genes and Genetic Systems

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 105-118

  Sumida, Masayuki ^a   Kato, Yoji ^a   Kurabayashi, Atsushi ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

ITS; Japanese pond frog; Rana nigromaculata; Ribosomal rRNA genes

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; PROTEIN ECOR I; RIBOSOME DNA; RIBOSOME RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUKARYOTE; EVOLUTION; FROG; GENE INSERTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RANA NIGROMACULATA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TAXONOMY; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE ECORI; DNA, INTERGENIC; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; EVOLUTION; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RANIDAE; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 28S; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 5.8S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; XENOPUS;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; ANURA; EUKARYOTA; INSERTION SEQUENCES; RANA NIGROMACULATA;

EID: 3042757408     PISSN: 13417568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1266/ggs.79.105     Document Type: Article

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