Surprisingly high number of Twintrons in vertebrates

Biology Direct

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Janice, Jessin ^a   Jakalski, Marcin ^a   Makałowski, Wojciech ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gene expression; Twintrons; Vertebrate genomes

Indexed keywords

HEXAPODA; VERTEBRATA;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; GENETICS; HUMAN; INTRON; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SPLICEOSOME; VERTEBRATE;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; INTRONS; SPLICEOSOMES; VERTEBRATES;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84872785869     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17456150     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1745-6150-8-4     Document Type: Note

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