Genome-wide analyses of alternative splicing in plants: Opportunities and challenges

Genome Research

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1382-1391

  Barbazuk, W Brad ^a,c   Fu, Yan ^a   McGinnis, Karen M ^b  

^a DONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARABIDOPSIS; DOMESTICATION; DROSOPHILA; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENOME; NONHUMAN; PLANT GENETICS; PLANT STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOMICS; REVIEW; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENE; GENETICS; INTRON; PHYLOGENY; PLANT; RNA SPLICING; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALIA;

ISOPROTEIN; RNA PRECURSOR;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ARABIDOPSIS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENES, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; INTRONS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; PLANTS; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA SPLICE SITES;

EID: 50649109231     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.053678.106     Document Type: Review

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