A novel family of mobile genetic elements is limited to the germline genome in Tetrahymena thermophila

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 2524-2537

  Wuitschick, Jeffrey D ^a   Gershan, Jill A ^a,b   Lochowicz, Andrew J ^a,c   Li, Shuqiang ^a   Karrer, Kathleen M ^a  

^a MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Blood Research Institute of Southeastern Wisconsin   (United States)

^c BLOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE ISOLATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC SIMILARITY; GERM LINE; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; MACRONUCLEUS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TERMINAL SEQUENCE; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA; TRANSPOSON;

MYXOZOA; PROTOZOA; TETRAHYMENA; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA; TRANSPOSONS;

EID: 0036606136     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/30.11.2524     Document Type: Article

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