Challenging the spliceosome machine

Genome Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Weir, Michael ^a   Eaton, Matthew ^a   Rice, Michael ^a  

^a WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GENOMIC DNA; MESSENGER RNA;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BASE MISPAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EXON; GENE DELETION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE INSERTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; INTRON; NONHUMAN; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPLICEOSOME; ANIMAL; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; RNA SPLICING;

ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; BASE PAIR MISMATCH; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DROSOPHILA; EXONS; INTRONS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RNA SPLICE SITES; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPLICEOSOMES;

EID: 33745035181     PISSN: 1474760X     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2006-7-1-r3     Document Type: Article

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