An archaebacterial homolog of pelota, a meiotic cell division protein in eukaryotes

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 144, Issue 2-3, 1996, Pages 151-155

  Ragan, Mark A ^a,b   Logsdon Jr , John M ^c   Sensen, Christoph W ^a,b   Charlebois, Robert L ^a,d   Doolittle, W Ford ^a,c  

^a CANADIAN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED RESEARCH   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^c DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Archaea; Archaebacterium; DOM34; Meiosis; Pelota; Sulfolobus solfataricus

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; CELL DIVISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EUKARYOTIC CELL; MEIOSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

ARCHAEA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EUKARYOTA; MELANOGASTER; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SULFOLOBUS SOLFATARICUS;

EID: 0030296660     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-1097(96)00351-5     Document Type: Article

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