The rise and falls of introns

Heredity

Volumn 96, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 208-213

  Belshaw, R ^a   Bensasson, D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Effective population size; Group II intron; Introns early; Introns late; Selfish DNA; Spliceosome

Indexed keywords

NATURAL SELECTION;

EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; INTRON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; REVIEW;

EUKARYOTIC CELLS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; INTRONS; PHYLOGENY; SELECTION (GENETICS);

EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA; THUJA;

EID: 33644603687     PISSN: 0018067X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.hdy.6800791     Document Type: Review

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