Evolution of the scrambled germline gene encoding α-telomere binding protein in three hypotrichous ciliates

Chromosoma

Volumn 107, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 293-303

  Prescott, Jason D ^a   DuBois, Michelle L ^a,b   Prescott, David M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CILIATE; DELETION MUTANT; EVOLUTION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENOME; MICRONUCLEUS; NONHUMAN; TELOMERE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GERM CELLS; HYPOTRICHIDA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; OXYTRICHA; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

CILIOPHORA; MYTILUS; OXYTRICHA; PROTOZOA; STERKIELLA HISTRIOMUSCORUM; STYLONYCHIA MYTILUS;

EID: 0031775351     PISSN: 00095915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004120050311     Document Type: Article

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