Mechanism for DNA transposons to generate introns on genomic scales

Nature

Volumn 538, Issue 7626, 2016, Pages 533-536

  Huff, Jason T ^a,b   Zilberman, Daniel ^a   Roy, Scott W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; CODON; NUCLEOSOME; RNA SPLICING; TRANSPOSON;

ALGA; DNA; EUKARYOTE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; GENOMICS; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; RNA;

ALLELE; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; AUREOCOCCUS ANOPHAGEFFERENS; CODON; DNA METHYLATION; EXON; GENOMICS; INTRON; INVERTED REPEAT; MICROBIAL GENOME; MICROMONAS PUSILLA; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; TRANSPOSON; EUKARYOTE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; GENOME; GREEN ALGA; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; RNA SPLICING; STRAMENOPILE;

AUREOCOCCUS ANOPHAGEFFERENS; EUKARYOTA; MICROMONAS PUSILLA;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHLOROPHYTA; CODON; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EUKARYOTA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; GENOME; GENOMICS; INTRONS; NUCLEOSOMES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA SPLICE SITES; STRAMENOPILES;

EID: 84993945126     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature20110     Document Type: Article

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