Two different macronuclear EF-1α-encoding genes of the ciliate Euplotes crassus are very dissimilar in their sequences, copy numbers and transcriptional activities

Gene

Volumn 168, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 109-112

  Bergemann, Jörg ^a,b   Florian, Volker ^a   Kremser, Thomas ^a   Klein, Albrecht ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR EXPERIMENTAL VIROLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Codon selection; Evolution; Gene amplification; Stylonychia; Translational elongation factor

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CILIATE; CODON; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE NUMBER; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MACRONUCLEUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CELL NUCLEUS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CODON; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA PRIMERS; EUPLOTES; GENE DOSAGE; GENES, PROTOZOAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTOR 1; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTORS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PROTOZOAN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0029670676     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-1119(95)00728-8     Document Type: Article

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