Genome remodeling in ciliated protozoa

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 56, Issue , 2002, Pages 489-520

  Jahn, Carolyn L ^a   Klobutcher, Lawrence A ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromosome fragmentation; DNA rearrangement; DNA splicing; Gene scrambling

Indexed keywords

DNA; DNA FRAGMENT;

CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME; CILIARY MOTILITY; CILIATE; DNA SPLICING; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; MACRONUCLEUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOON; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TELOMERE;

ANIMALS; CILIOPHORA; DNA FRAGMENTATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; MODELS, GENETIC;

CILIOPHORA; MYXOZOA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0036405276     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.micro.56.012302.160916     Document Type: Review

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