Short-term sequence evolution and vertical inheritance of the Naegleria twin-ribozyme group I intron

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Wikmark, Odd Gunnar ^a   Einvik, Christer ^a,b   De Jonckheere, Johan F ^c   Johansen, Steinar D ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH NORWAY   (Norway)

^c SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Belgium)

^d NORD UNIVERSITY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDONUCLEASE; MESSENGER RNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RIBOSOME RNA; RIBOZYME; SPACER DNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; INHERITANCE; INTRON; NAEGLERIA; NAEGLERIA FOWLERI; NAEGLERIA GRUBERI; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; RNA SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

AMOEBA (GENUS); NAEGLERIA; NAEGLERIA FOWLERI; NAEGLERIA GRUBERI;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA, INTERGENIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NAEGLERIA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, CATALYTIC;

EID: 33646758216     PISSN: 14712148     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-6-39     Document Type: Article

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