Genetics: Why genomes in pieces?

Science

Volumn 318, Issue 5849, 2007, Pages 405-407

  Landweber, Laura F ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; GENE; GENETICS; GENOME;

CELL FUNCTION; EUKARYOTE; FLAGELLATE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENOME; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA SPLICING; RNA STRUCTURE;

ALGAE, RED; ANIMALS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; MASTIGOPHORA; MITOCHONDRIA; RNA EDITING; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, TRANSFER;

EID: 35348944808     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1150280     Document Type: Review

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15. Supported by NSF grant 0622112 and NIH grant GM59708. I thank C. Delwiche for discussion.