Introns and the origin of nucleus-cytosol compartmentalization

Nature

Volumn 440, Issue 7080, 2006, Pages 41-45

  Martin, William ^a   Koonin, Eugene V ^b  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; RNA;

CYTOSOL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; EUKARYOTIC NUCLEUS; MITOCHONDRIA;

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS;

MESSENGER RNA;

SCIENCE IN GENERAL;

ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOSOL; EUKARYOTE; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; INTRON; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING; TRANS SPLICING;

EUKARYOTA; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS;

EID: 33644783626     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04531     Document Type: Article

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