Genome-wide analysis reveals origin of transfer RNAl tRNA halves

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 2087-2098

  Zuo, Zhixiang ^a   Peng, Duo ^a   Yin, Xiujuan ^a   Zhou, Xiang ^a   Cheng, Hanhua ^a   Zhou, Rongjia ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

expression; indels; repeat elements; tRNA

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE; TRANSFER RNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; INDEL MUTATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; RNA GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSFER RNA GENE;

EID: 84883207743     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/mst107     Document Type: Article

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