Complete sequence of the mitochondrial genome of Tetrahymena thermophila and comparative methods for identifying highly divergent genes

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1673-1682

  Brunk, Clifford F ^b   Lee, Louis C ^b   Tran, Anne B ^b   Li, Jinliang ^a  

^a Laragen Inc   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; RIBOSOME RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; MITOCHONDRIAL GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; RNA GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TANDEM REPEAT; TETRAHYMENA PYRIFORMIS; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENES, PROTOZOAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TETRAHYMENA; TETRAHYMENA PYRIFORMIS; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA; VARIATION (GENETICS);

PROTOZOA; TETRAHYMENA PYRIFORMIS; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

EID: 0037443875     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkg270     Document Type: Review

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