Nuclear ribosomal spacer regions in plant phylogenetics : problems and prospects
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Poczai , P & Hyvönen , J 2010 , ' Nuclear ribosomal spacer regions in plant phylogenetics : problems and prospects ' , Molecular Biology Reports , vol. 37 , no. 4 , pp. 1897-1912 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s11033-009-9630-3
| Title: | Nuclear ribosomal spacer regions in plant phylogenetics : problems and prospects |
| Author: | Poczai, Péter; Hyvönen, Jaakko |
| Contributor: | University of Helsinki, Biosciences University of Helsinki, Plant Biology |
| Date: | 2010 |
| Language: | eng |
| Number of pages: | 16 |
| Belongs to series: | Molecular Biology Reports |
| ISSN: | 0301-4851 |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10138/29505 |
| Subject: |
Internal transcribed spacer (ITS)
External transcribed spacer (ETS) Intergenic spacer (IGS) Nuclear ribosomal DNA (rDNA) Phylogenetics INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER RDNA INTERGENIC SPACER IN-SITU HYBRIDIZATION SECONDARY STRUCTURE RNA GENES CONCERTED EVOLUTION DNA-SEQUENCES SACCHAROMYCES-CEREVISIAE MOLECULAR EVOLUTION MULTIGENE FAMILIES 118 Biological sciences |
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