Two two-gene macronuclear chromosomes of the hypotrichous ciliates Oxytricha fallax and O. trifallax generated by alternative processing of the 81 locus

Developmental Genetics

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 348-357

  Seegmiller, Adam ^a   Williams, Kevin R ^a   Herrick, Glenn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

'Gene sized' chromosome; Ciliate code; Coiled coil; Intron; Mitochondrial solute carrier

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CILIATE; GENE ASSIGNMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCUS; GROWTH REGULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOPODIUM;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMOSOMES; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GENES, PROTOZOAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; OXYTRICHA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

CILIOPHORA; EUKARYOTA; FALLAX; MYXOZOA; OXYTRICHA FALLAX; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0030851492     PISSN: 0192253X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6408(1997)20:4<348::AID-DVG6>3.0.CO;2-7     Document Type: Article

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