The trouble with (group II) introns

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 18, 2014, Pages 6536-6537

  Doolittle, W Ford ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; CELL NUCLEUS MEMBRANE; CHROMOSOME; EUKARYOTE; EUKARYOTE EVOLUTION; EXON SHUFFLING; GENE EXPRESSION; INTRON; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; RIBOSOME; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSPOSON;

CELL NUCLEUS; HUMANS; INTRONS; RNA PRECURSORS;

EID: 84899793692     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1405174111     Document Type: Note

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