Computational screen for spliceosomal RNA genes aids in defining the phylogenetic distribution of major and minor spliceosomal components

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 3001-3010

  López, Marcela Dávila ^a   Alm Rosenblad, Magnus ^b   Samuelsson, Tore ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL RNA; PROTOZOAL RNA; RNA; SPLICEOSOMAL RNA;

ACANTHAMOEBA CASTELLANII; ARTICLE; CELL LINEAGE; CHYTRIDIOMYCETES; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; EUKARYOTE EVOLUTION; FUNGAL GENE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; INTRON; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYSARUM POLYCEPHALUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; RNA GENE; RNA STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; TRICHINELLA SPIRALIS; ZYGOMYCETES;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOMICS; MARKOV CHAINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PHYSARUM POLYCEPHALUM; RNA, SMALL NUCLEAR; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPLICEOSOMES; TRICHINELLA SPIRALIS; ZYGOMYCOTA;

ACANTHAMOEBA CASTELLANII; CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA; EUKARYOTA; METAZOA; PHYSARUM POLYCEPHALUM; PROTOZOA; TRICHINELLA SPIRALIS; ZYGOMYCOTA;

EID: 44349155377     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkn142     Document Type: Article

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