Putative telomerase catalytic subunits from Giardia lamblia and Caenorhabditis elegans

Gene

Volumn 251, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 101-108

  Malik, Harmit S ^a,b   Burke, William D ^a   Eickbush, Thomas H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Non LTR retrotransposons; Phylogeny; Reverse transcriptase; Telomeres

Indexed keywords

TELOMERASE;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CATALYSIS; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TELOMERE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA; EXONS; GENES; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TELOMERASE;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EUKARYOTA; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0034720806     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(00)00207-9     Document Type: Article

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