Genomic organization of eukaryotic tRNAs

BMC Genomics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Bermudez Santana, Clara ^a,b   Attolini, Camille S ^a,d   Kirsten, Toralf ^a   Engelhardt, Jan ^a   Prohaska, Sonja J ^a   Steigele, Stephan ^c   Stadler, Peter F ^a,e,f,g,h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

^c GENEDATA AG   (Switzerland)

^d INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN BIOMEDICINE   (Spain)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MATHEMATICS IN THE SCIENCES   (Germany)

^f FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR CELL THERAPY AND IMMUNOLOGY   (Germany)

^g SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSFER RNA; DNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUKARYOTE; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME SIZE; METAZOON; NEMATOSTELLA VECTENSIS; NONHUMAN; OTOLEMUR GARNETTI; PHYLUM; PRIMATE; PSEUDOGENE; SEA ANEMONE; TELEOST; TRICHOPLAX ADHAERENS; ZEBRA FISH; ANIMAL; GENETICS; GENOME; GENOMICS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SYNTENY;

ACTINIARIA; DANIO RERIO; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; EUKARYOTA; EUTHERIA; METAZOA; NEMATOSTELLA VECTENSIS; OTOLEMUR GARNETTII; PRIMATES; TELEOSTEI; TRICHOPLAX ADHAERENS;

ANIMALS; DNA; EUKARYOTA; GENOME; GENOMICS; HUMANS; PSEUDOGENES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RNA, TRANSFER; SYNTENY;

EID: 77951613080     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-11-270     Document Type: Article

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