Deciphering the plant splicing code: Experimental and computational approaches for predicting alternative splicing and splicing regulatory elements

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 3, Issue FEB, 2012, Pages

  Reddy, Anireddy S N ^a   Rogers, Mark F ^b   Richardson, Dale N ^c   Hamilton, Michael ^b   Ben Hur, Asa ^a,b  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b Colorado State University   (United States)

^c CENTRO DE INVESTIGAÇÃO EM BIODIVERSIDADE E RECURSOS GENÉTICOS   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Arabidopsis; Plants; Pre mRNA splicing; RNA Seq; Splicing code; Splicing regulators; Splicing regulatory elements

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865194709     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2012.00018     Document Type: Review

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