U12 type introns were lost at multiple occasions during evolution

BMC Genomics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Bartschat, Sebastian ^a,b   Samuelsson, Tore ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME PROTEIN; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA; U12 SMALL NUCLEAR RNA;

ARTICLE; BASIDIOMYCETES; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIATOM; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE SEQUENCE; GREEN ALGA; INTRON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MONOSIGA BREVICOLLIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RNA SPLICING; SPLICEOSOME; TRICHINELLA SPIRALIS; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; CHOANOFLAGELLATE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; PHYLOGENY;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; BASIDIOMYCOTA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHLOROPHYTA; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; EUKARYOTA; MONOSIGA BREVICOLLIS; TRICHINELLA SPIRALIS;

ALGAE, GREEN; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHOANOFLAGELLATA; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DIATOMS; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; INTRONS; PHYLOGENY; RNA, SMALL NUCLEAR; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPLICEOSOMES; TRICHINELLA SPIRALIS;

EID: 77949461898     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-11-106     Document Type: Article

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