The Dictyostelium genome project an invitation to species hopping

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 294-297

  Kay, Robert R ^a   Williams, Jeffrey G ^b  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; GENE FUSION; GENE INSERTION; GENE MAPPING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; YEAST;

DICTYOSTELIUM; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; MYXOGASTRIA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0033180509     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9525(99)01770-9     Document Type: Short Survey

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