Functional genomics: The coming of age for Tetrahymena thermophila

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 35-40

  Turkewitz, Aaron P ^a   Orias, Eduardo ^b   Kapler, Geoffrey ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CHROMATIN; DNA VECTOR; EUKARYOTE; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENOME; HETEROKARYON; HOMOZYGOSITY; IN VIVO STUDY; MACRONUCLEUS; MICRONUCLEUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESEARCH; REVIEW; SOMATIC CELL GENETICS; TELOMERE; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALS; ANTISENSE ELEMENTS (GENETICS); GENETIC TECHNIQUES; GENETIC VECTORS; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; GENOMICS; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

EMBRYOPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; PROTISTA; PROTOZOA; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

EID: 0036138203     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9525(01)02560-4     Document Type: Review

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