Pankinetoplast DNA structure in a primitive bodonid flagellate, cryptobia helicis

EMBO Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 838-846

  Lukeš, Julius ^a   Jirků, Milan ^a   Avliyakulov, Nuraly ^a   Benada, Oldřich ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Catenation; kDNA; Kinetoplastida; Mitochondrial DNA; Supercoiling

Indexed keywords

CELL DNA; KINETOPLAST DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; DNA SUPERCOILING; FLAGELLATE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALS; DNA, CIRCULAR; DNA, KINETOPLAST; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DNA, PROTOZOAN; KINETOPLASTIDA; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MITOCHONDRIA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION;

BODONIDAE; CRYPTOBIA HELICIS; KINETOPLASTIDA; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); PROTOZOA;

EID: 0032472956     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/17.3.838     Document Type: Article

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