The bursicon gene in mosquitoes: An unusual example of mRNA trans-splicing

Genetics

Volumn 176, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 1351-1353

  Robertson, Hugh M ^a   Navik, Julia A ^a   Walden, Kimberly K O ^a   Honegger, Hans Willi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

AEDES AEGYPTI; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ARM; CULEX PIPIENS; EXON; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING;

AEDES; ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CULEX; CULICIDAE; INVERTEBRATE HORMONES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA SPLICING; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

AEDES AEGYPTI; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; CULEX PIPIENS;

EID: 34250703869     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.107.070938     Document Type: Article

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