What is a gene? An updated operational definition

Gene

Volumn 417, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 1-4

  Pesole, Graziano ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Alternative transcription start sites; Alternative transcription termination; Bioinformatics; Genomics

Indexed keywords

RNA; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENE SYNTHESIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW;

CHROMOSOMES; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; GENES; HUMANS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA, UNTRANSLATED; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 44449176159     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2008.03.010     Document Type: Review

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