Evolutionarily conserved cox1 trans-splicing without cis-motifs

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2425-2428

  Kiethega, Georgette N ^a   Turcotte, Marcel ^b   Burger, Gertraud ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c Universite de Montreal   (Canada)

Author keywords

diplonemids (Euglenozoa); gene fragmentation; multichromosome mtDNA; pattern search; phylogeny; U insertion RNA editing

Indexed keywords

CIS ACTING ELEMENT; GENE PRODUCT; MESSENGER RNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN COX1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URIDINE;

ARTICLE; DIPLONEMA PAPILLATUM; DNA FLANKING REGION; EUGLENOZOA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; INTRON; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN MOTIF; RNA EDITING; TRANS SPLICING;

BASE SEQUENCE; CYCLOOXYGENASE 1; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; INTRONS; MEIOTIC PROPHASE I; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA EDITING; TRANS-SPLICING;

DIPLONEMA PAPILLATUM; DIPLONEMA SP. ATCC 50224; DIPLONEMIDA; EUGLENOZOA; PROTISTA; RHYNCHOPUS;

EID: 79960916191     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msr075     Document Type: Article

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