Trans-splicing

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: RNA

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 417-434

  Lasda, Erika L ^a,b   Blumenthal, Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; SMALL UNTRANSLATED RNA; UNTRANSLATED RNA; RNA PRECURSOR; SPLICED LEADER RNA;

ASCARIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHORDATA; DINOFLAGELLATE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA STRAND; DROSOPHILA; EUGLENOZOA; NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PHYLOGENY; PLATYHELMINTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA TRANSPORT; TRANS SPLICING; TRICHINELLA SPIRALIS; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; RNA STABILITY; SPLICEOSOME;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHORDATA; MAMMALIA; NEMATODA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OPERON; PHYLOGENY; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA STABILITY; RNA, SPLICED LEADER; SPLICEOSOMES; TRANS-SPLICING;

EID: 84857710418     PISSN: 17577004     EISSN: 17577012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrna.71     Document Type: Review

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