Analysis of sponge genes indicates the short intron size

Periodicum Biologorum

Volumn 109, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 195-200

  Štifanić, Mauro ^a   Batel, Renato ^a  

^a RUDER BO KOVI INSTITUTE   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Distribution; Exon; Intron; Porifera; Reniera; Size

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; EXON; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; INTRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SPONGE (PORIFERA);

METAZOA; PORIFERA; RENIERA;

EID: 34250879603     PISSN: 00315362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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