Several highly divergent histone H3 genes are present in the hypotrichous ciliate Stylonychia lemnae

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 175, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 45-50

  Bernhard, Detlef ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ciliate; Histone H3; Stylonychia lemnae

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H3;

ARTICLE; CILIATE; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; INTRON; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN VARIANT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CILIOPHORA; GENES, PROTOZOAN; HISTONES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VARIATION (GENETICS);

CILIOPHORA; PROTOZOA; STYLONYCHIA LEMNAE;

EID: 0033037639     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(99)00174-3     Document Type: Article

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