10 Non-mendelian inheritance and homology-dependent effects in ciliates

Advances in Genetics

Volumn 46, Issue , 2002, Pages 305-337

  Meyer, Eric ^a   Garnier, Olivier ^a  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CILIATE; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE DELETION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETICS; GENOME; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALE; PARAMECIUM TETRAURELIA; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; TETRAHYMENA; TRANSPOSON; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; CILIOPHORA; DNA FRAGMENTATION; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; PARAMECIUM TETRAURELIA; REPRODUCTION; SEQUENCE DELETION; TETRAHYMENA; ZYGOTE;

EID: 0036359622     PISSN: 00652660     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/s0065-2660(02)46011-7     Document Type: Review

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