Evolution of ultrasmall spliceosomal introns in highly reduced nuclear genomes

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1699-1705

  Slamovits, Claudio H ^a   Keeling, Patrick J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Endosymbiosis; Genome evolution; Introns; Splicing

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GENOMIC DNA; RNA;

ALGA; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; ENDOSYMBIOSIS; EUKARYOTE; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENOME; INTRON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE DATABASE; SPLICEOSOME;

CELL NUCLEUS; CRYPTOPHYTA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME; INTRONS; SPLICEOSOMES; SYMBIOSIS;

ALGAE; BIGELOWIELLA NATANS; CHLORARACHNIOPHYCEAE; CRYPTOPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; GYMNOCHLORA STELLATA; MICROSPORIDIA;

EID: 67749101349     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msp081     Document Type: Article

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