Loss of introns in the pollen-specific actin gene subfamily members of potato and tomato

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 509-513

  Drouin, Guy ^a   Moniz De Sá, Mário ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Actin; Gene conversion; Intron loss events; Pollen specific; Potato; Reverse transcribed cDNA; Tobacco; Tomato

Indexed keywords

ACTIN;

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE CONVERSION; INTRON; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PHYLOGENY; POLLEN; POTATO; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TOMATO;

LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 9844238691     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00006255     Document Type: Article

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