Tick-Box for 3′-End Formation of Mitochondrial Transcripts in Ixodida, Basal Chelicerates and Drosophila

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Montagna, Matteo ^a   Sassera, Davide ^a   Griggio, Francesca ^a   Epis, Sara ^a   Bandi, Claudio ^a   Gissi, Carmela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; IXODES RICINUS; LIMULUS; MITOCHONDRION; NAD1 GENE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; RRNL GENE; STOP CODON; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION;

ANIMALS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HORSESHOE CRABS; IXODES; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIFS; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; RNA, TRANSFER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84867554596     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0047538     Document Type: Article

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