Splicing and evolution of an unusually small group I intron

Current Genetics

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 213-222

  Harris, Lorena ^a   Rogers, Scott O ^a  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Group I intron; Phialophora; Ribosomal RNA; Ribozyme; Small subunit gene

Indexed keywords

DNA; GUANINE; NUCLEAR RNA; NUCLEOTIDE; RIBOSOME RNA; URACIL;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; BASE PAIRING; BIOCHEMISTRY; DNA EXTRACTION; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL GENETICS; GENE DELETION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE STRUCTURE; GENEALOGY; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HYPHOMYCETES; IN VITRO STUDY; INTRON; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; REVIEW; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA SPLICING;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; BASE SEQUENCE; CATALYSIS; DNA; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA PRIMERS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DELETION; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHIALOPHORA; PHYLOGENY; RNA SPLICING; RNA, CATALYTIC;

CAPRONIA SEMIIMMERSA; FUNGI; PHIALOPHORA;

EID: 52549105811     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00294-008-0213-y     Document Type: Review

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