Primordial spliceosomal introns were probably U2-type

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 525-528

  Basu, Malay Kumar ^a   Rogozin, Igor B ^a   Koonin, Eugene V ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; GENE INSERTION; HUMAN; INTRON; INTRON U12; INTRON U2; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; SPLICEOSOME;

ANIMALS; ARABIDOPSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; INTRONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SPLICEOSOMES;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 54849437046     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2008.09.002     Document Type: Short Survey

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