Genome gymnastics: Unique modes of DNA evolution and processing in ciliates

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 191-198

  Prescott, David M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CILIOPHORA;

DNA;

ANIMAL; CILIATE; GENETICS; GENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CILIOPHORA; DNA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME;

EID: 0034574433     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35042057     Document Type: Review

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