A high density of ancient spliceosomal introns in oxymonad excavates

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Slamovits, Claudio H ^a   Keeling, Patrick J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY; EUKARYOTE; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; FLAGELLATE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; INTRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXYMONAD; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; PROTOZOON; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPLICEOSOME; STREBLOMASTIX STRIX; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENETICS; GIARDIA; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRICHOMONAS;

ARCHEZOA; EUKARYOTA; GIARDIA; STREBLOMASTIX; STREBLOMASTIX STRIX; TRICHOMONAS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GIARDIA; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPLICEOSOMES; TRICHOMONAS;

EID: 33746001953     PISSN: 14712148     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-6-34     Document Type: Article

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