Skip to main page content
U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Dot gov

The .gov means it’s official.
Federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. Before sharing sensitive information, make sure you’re on a federal government site.

Https

The site is secure.
The https:// ensures that you are connecting to the official website and that any information you provide is encrypted and transmitted securely.

Access keys NCBI Homepage MyNCBI Homepage Main Content Main Navigation
Comment
. 2008 Sep;9(9):820; author reply 820-1.
doi: 10.1038/embor.2008.153.

Transfer RNA genes in pieces are an ancestral character

Massimo Di Giulio
Comment

Transfer RNA genes in pieces are an ancestral character

Massimo Di Giulio. EMBO Rep. 2008 Sep.
No abstract available

PubMed Disclaimer

Comment on

  • Transfer RNA genes in pieces.
    Randau L, Söll D. Randau L, et al. EMBO Rep. 2008 Jul;9(7):623-8. doi: 10.1038/embor.2008.101. Epub 2008 Jun 13. EMBO Rep. 2008. PMID: 18552771 Free PMC article.

References

    1. Di Giulio M (2006) The non-monophyletic origin of the tRNA molecule and the origin of genes only after the evolutionary stage of the Last Universal Common Ancestor (LUCA). J Theor Biol 240: 343–352 - PubMed
    1. Di Giulio M (2008) Permuted tRNA genes of Cyanidioschyzon merolae, the origin of the tRNA molecule and the root of the Eukarya domain. J Theor Biol 253: 587–592 - PubMed
    1. Haugen P, Simon DM, Bhattacharya D (2005) The natural history of group I introns. Trends Genet 21: 111–119 - PubMed
    1. Lowe TM, Eddy SR (1997) tRNAscan-SE: a program for improving detection of transfer RNA genes in genomic sequence. Nucleic Acids Res 25: 955–964 (http://lowelab.ucsc.edu/GtRNAdb/) - PMC - PubMed
    1. Randau L, Söll D (2008) Transfer RNA genes in pieces. EMBO Rep 9: 623–628 - PMC - PubMed