A newly formed telomere in Ascaris suum does not exert a telomere position effect on a nearby gene

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 130-134

  Huang, Yue Jin ^a,b   Stoffel, Ruedi ^a,c   Tobler, Heinz ^a   Mueller, Fritz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; ASCARIS SUUM; EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

ARTICLE; ASCARIS SUUM; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELOMERE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ASCARIS SUUM; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA, HELMINTH; FEMALE; GENES, HELMINTH; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TELOMERE;

EID: 0029655901     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.16.1.130     Document Type: Article

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