Analysis of a piwi-related gene implicates small RNAs in genome rearrangement in Tetrahymena

Cell

Volumn 110, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 689-699

  Mochizuki, Kazufumi ^a   Fine, Noah A ^b   Fujisawa, Toshitaka ^c   Gorovsky, Martin A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN PDD1; PROTEIN TWI1; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; CONJUGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MACRONUCLEUS; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

CILIOPHORA; PROTOZOA; TETRAHYMENA; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

EID: 0037145031     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8674(02)00909-1     Document Type: Article

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