Evolution of gene scrambling in ciliate micronuclear genes

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 870, Issue , 1999, Pages 349-350

  Curtis, Edward A ^a   Landweber, Laura F ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE ALPHA;

CILIATE; CONFERENCE PAPER; EVOLUTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; MICRONUCLEUS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TELOMERE;

CILIOPHORA;

EID: 0032813499     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1999.tb08900.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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