Tetrahymena mutants with short telomeres

Genetics

Volumn 150, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 643-650

  Ahmed, Shawn ^a,b   Sheng, Hong ^a,c   Niu, Luming ^a,d   Henderson, Eric ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c Ergo Science Corp   (United States)

^d Immusol Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TELOMERASE;

ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; GENE MUTATION; HETEROZYGOSITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELOMERE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVE MUTANT; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; HETERODUPLEX ANALYSIS; HETEROZYGOTE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; RNA, PROTOZOAN; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE; TEMPERATURE; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

INVERTEBRATA; TETRAHYMENA; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

EID: 0031657746     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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