A mendelian mutation affecting mating-type determination also affects developmental genomic rearrangements in Paramecium tetraurelia

Genetics

Volumn 143, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 191-202

  Meyer, Eric ^a   Keller, Anne Marie ^b  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CILIATE; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DNA SYNTHESIS; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; GENE MUTATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HOMOZYGOTE; MACRONUCLEUS; MATING; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PARAMECIUM TETRAURELIA; PLEIOTROPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; CROSSES, GENETIC; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENES, PROTOZOAN; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PARAMECIUM TETRAURELIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; ZYGOTE;

EID: 0029869354     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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