Sequence and structure of the extrachromosomal palindrome encoding the ribosomal RNA genes in Dictyostelium

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 2361-2368

  Sucgang, Richard ^a   Chen, Guokai ^a   Liu, Wen ^a   Lindsay, Ryan ^a   Lu, Jing ^a   Muzny, Donna ^a   Shaulsky, Gad ^a   Loomis, William ^b   Gibbs, Richard ^a   Kuspa, Adam ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS DNA; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL DNA; NOCODAZOLE; PALINDROMIC DNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RIBOSOME RNA; PROTOZOAL DNA;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 4; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOGENETICS; DICTYOSTELIUM; DNA LIBRARY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC CODE; MITOSIS INHIBITION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA GENE; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SEGREGATION ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CHROMOSOME MAP; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PLASMID;

DICTYOSTELIUM; FUNGI; MYXOGASTRIA; PROTISTA; PROTOZOA;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DICTYOSTELIUM; DNA, PROTOZOAN; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 0037736801     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkg348     Document Type: Article

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