Autonomously replicating macronuclear DNA pieces are the physical basis of genetic coassortment groups in Tetrahymena thermophila

Genetics

Volumn 155, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 1119-1125

  Wong, Laura ^a,b   Klionsky, Lana ^a,c   Wickert, Steve ^a,d   Merriam, Virginia ^a,e   Orias, Eduardo ^a   Hamilton, Eileen P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Operon Technologies Inc   (United States)

^c AMGEN INC   (United States)

^d Protein Pathways   (United States)

^e LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; PROTOZOAL DNA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME REPLICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE ASSIGNMENT; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; MACRONUCLEUS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, PROTOZOAN; INBREEDING; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA TECHNIQUE; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

CILIOPHORA; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM COMPLEX (MAC); PROTOZOA; TETRAHYMENA; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

EID: 0033926879     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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