U12-type spliceosomal introns of insecta

International Journal of Biological Sciences

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 344-352

  Janice, Jessin ^a   Pande, Amit ^a   Weiner, January ^a,b   Lin, Chiao Feng ^a,c   Makałowski, Wojciech ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INFECTION BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

U12 type introns minor spliceosome insect evolution

Indexed keywords

INSECT PROTEIN; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA; U12 SMALL NUCLEAR RNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEE; CHEMISTRY; DROSOPHILA; FLY; GENE; GENETICS; INTRON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOSQUITO; PEDICULUS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SILKWORM; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPLICEOSOME; TRIBOLIUM;

ANIMALS; BEES; BOMBYX; CULICIDAE; DIPTERA; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, INSECT; INSECT PROTEINS; INTRONS; PEDICULUS; PHYLOGENY; RNA, SMALL NUCLEAR; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPLICEOSOMES; TRIBOLIUM;

DIPTERA; EUKARYOTA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA;

EID: 84863241687     PISSN: 14492288     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7150/ijbs.3933     Document Type: Article

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