Origin of spliceosomal introns and alternative splicing

Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Irimia, Manuel ^a   Roy, Scott William ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; EXON; INTRON; SPLICEOSOME;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; EXONS; INTRONS; SPLICEOSOMES;

EID: 84903692984     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19430264     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a016071     Document Type: Article

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