The peculiarities of large intron splicing in animals

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2009, Pages

  Shepard, Samuel ^a   McCreary, Mark ^a,b   Fedorov, Alexei ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF OHIO   (United States)

^b ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR; RNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; INTRON; MAMMAL; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RNA SPLICING; RNA STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; CHICKEN; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EXON; GENETICS; LONG INTERSPERSED REPEAT; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALIA; DANIO RERIO; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHICKENS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EXONS; HUMANS; INTRONS; LONG INTERSPERSED NUCLEOTIDE ELEMENTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA; RNA SPLICING; SOFTWARE; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 70649088961     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0007853     Document Type: Article

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