Mobile group II introns

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 38, Issue , 2004, Pages 1-35

  Lambowitz, Alan M ^a   Zimmerly, Steven ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Intron evolution; Retrotransposon; Reverse transcriptase; Ribozyme; RNA splicing

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; RIBOZYME; RNA; RNA PRECURSOR;

BACTERIAL GENE; CELL ORGANELLE; DNA REPLICATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENE TARGETING; GENE VECTOR; GENOME; INTRON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RETROPOSON; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; REVIEW; RNA SPLICING; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SPLICEOSOME; YEAST;

BACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE TARGETING; INTRONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PHYLOGENY; RETROELEMENTS; RNA SPLICING; RNA, CATALYTIC; SPLICEOSOMES; YEASTS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; INSERTION SEQUENCES;

EID: 4344656805     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.genet.38.072902.091600     Document Type: Review

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