A mutation in Paramecium tetraurelia reveals functional and structural features of developmentally excised DNA elements

Genetics

Volumn 148, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 139-149

  Mayer, Kimberly M ^a   Mikami, Kazuyuki ^b   Forney, James D ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MIYAGI UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE MUTATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; NONHUMAN; PARAMECIUM TETRAURELIA; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GENES, PROTOZOAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PARAMECIUM TETRAURELIA; PHENOTYPE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE DELETION;

EID: 0031930311     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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