Experimental evidence for splicing of intron-containing transcripts of plant LTR retrotransposon Ogre

Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Volumn 280, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 427-436

  Steinbauerová, Veronika ^a,b   Neumann, Pavel ^a   Macas, Jiří ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Medicago truncatula; Pisum sativum; Retroelements; Splicing; Transcription

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BARREL MEDIC; INTRON; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; RETROPOSON; RETROPOSON OGRE; RNA SPLICING; RNA TRANSCRIPTION;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; INTRONS; MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PEAS; RETROELEMENTS; SEEDS; TERMINAL REPEAT SEQUENCES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA; PISUM SATIVUM;

EID: 54349114240     PISSN: 16174615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00438-008-0376-8     Document Type: Article

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