Evolutionary rates vary among rRNA structural elements

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 3339-3354

  Smit, S ^a   Widmann, J ^a   Knight, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PEPTIDYLTRANSFERASE; RIBOSOME RNA; TRANSFER RNA; ARCHAEAL RNA; BACTERIAL RNA; FUNGAL RNA;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTE; FIRMICUTES; FUNGUS; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; METAZOON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOSOME; RNA STRUCTURE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; GENETICS; MUTATION;

EUKARYOTA;

EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RIBOSOMES; RNA, ARCHAEAL; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL;

EID: 34250880169     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkm101     Document Type: Article

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