Selection on the genes of Euplotes crassus Tec1 and Tec2 transposons: Evolutionary appearance of a programmed frameshift in a Tec2 gene encoding a tyrosine family site-specific recombinase

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 95-102

  Doak, Thomas G ^a   Witherspoon, David J ^b   Jahn, Carolyn L ^c   Herrick, Glenn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Idaho Technology Inc   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; DNA; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EUPLOTES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; RECOMBINASES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TYROSINE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CILIOPHORA; EUKARYOTA; EUPLOTES; MONEUPLOTES CRASSUS; MYXOZOA; PROTOZOA; TRANSPOSONS;

EID: 0037805757     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.2.1.95-102.2003     Document Type: Article

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