Evolution of DNA organization in hypotrichous ciliates

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 870, Issue , 1999, Pages 301-313

  Prescott, David M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

CILIATE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DNA STRUCTURE; EVOLUTION; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENOME; MACRONUCLEUS; MICRONUCLEUS; NONHUMAN; RNA SPLICING;

CILIOPHORA;

EID: 0032776146     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1999.tb08892.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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