Transfer RNA genes in pieces are an ancestral character

EMBO Reports

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 820-

  Di Giulio, Massimo ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND BIOPHYSICS ADRIANO BUZZATI TRAVERSO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

ANTICODON; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; BACTERIAL GENETICS; EUKARYOTE; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC CODE; INTRON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NANOARCHAEOTA; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PLESIOMORPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING;

EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; INTRONS; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; NANOARCHAEOTA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA, TRANSFER;

EID: 51049124543     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: 14693178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/embor.2008.153     Document Type: Note

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