A PIWI homology is one of the proteins expressed exclusively during macronuclear development in the ciliate Stylonychia lemnae

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 30, Issue 20, 2002, Pages 4380-4386

  Fetzer, Christian P ^a   Hogan, Daniel J ^a   Lipps, Hans J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; PROTOZOAL RNA; DNA; MESSENGER RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CHEMISTRY; CILIATE; GENE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA SPLICING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SILENCING; GERM LINE; HYBRIDIZATION; MACRONUCLEUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CILIOPHORA; GENES, PROTOZOAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RNA, PROTOZOAN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

CILIOPHORA; INVERTEBRATA; PROTOZOA; STYLONYCHIA LEMNAE;

EID: 0037107344     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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