Mobile bacterial group II introns at the crux of eukaryotic evolution

Microbiology Spectrum

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Lambowitz, Alan M ^a   Belfort, Marlene ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEON; BACTERIUM; CELL FUSION; EUKARYOTE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; INTRON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; SYMBIOSIS;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; CELL FUSION; EUKARYOTA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; INTRONS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84940741423     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21650497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/microbiolspec.MDNA3-0050-2014     Document Type: Article

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