SL RNA genes of the ascidian tunicates Ciona intestinalis and Ciona savignyi

Zoological Science

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 171-180

  Yeats, Brendan ^a   Matsumoto, Jun ^a   Mortimer, Sandra I ^a   Shoguchi, Eiichi ^b   Satoh, Nori ^b   Hastings, Kenneth E M ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Promotion Corporation   (Japan)

Author keywords

5S RNA; Chordates; Fluorescent in situ hybridization; Tandemly repeated genes; Trans splicing; U6 snRNA

Indexed keywords

SPLICED LEADER RNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME MAP; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETICS; GENOME; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; UROCHORDATA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; GENOME; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, SPLICED LEADER; UROCHORDATA;

ASCIDIA; ASCIDIACEA; CHORDATA; CIONA; CIONA INTESTINALIS; CIONA SAVIGNYI; UROCHORDATA;

EID: 76849113959     PISSN: 02890003     EISSN: 02890003     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2108/zsj.27.171     Document Type: Article

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