Genome downsizing during ciliate development: Nuclear division of labor through chromosome restructuring

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 30, Issue , 1996, Pages 557-578

  Coyne, Robert S ^a   Chalker, Douglas L ^a   Yao, Meng Chao ^a  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

chromosome breakage; chromosome structure; ciliated protozoa; DNA deletion; germline soma differentiation

Indexed keywords

CIS ACTING ELEMENT; DNA;

CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CILIATE; GENE DELETION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENOME; MACRONUCLEUS; MICRONUCLEUS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; GERM-LINE MUTATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE DELETION; TETRAHYMENA;

EID: 0030443678     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.genet.30.1.557     Document Type: Review

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