New telomere formation coupled with site-specific chromosome breakage in Tetrahymena thermophila

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 1267-1274

  Fan, Qichang ^a   Yao, Meng Chao ^a  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC MARKER; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STABILITY; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; TELOMERE; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

MYXOZOA; PROTOZOA; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

EID: 0030042989     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.16.3.1267     Document Type: Article

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