Crawling into a new era - The Dictyostelium genome project

EMBO Journal

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1941-1946

  Eichinger, Ludwig ^a   Noegel, Angelika A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chromosome shotgun; Dictyostelium discoideum; Genome; Model organism; Sequencing

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID B RECEPTOR; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR;

AMOEBA; ANALYTIC METHOD; AT RICH SEQUENCE; AUSTRALIA; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MOTILITY; CHROMOSOME 1; CHROMOSOME 2; CHROMOSOME 6; CYTOKINESIS; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GENOME; GERMANY; HUMAN; JAPAN; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEOMICS; PUBLICATION; REVIEW; SEQUENCE DATABASE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; WHOLE CHROMOSOME SHOTGUN METHOD;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES; DICTYOSTELIUM; GENOME; PHYLOGENY;

DICTYOSTELIUM; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0037881954     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/cdg214     Document Type: Review

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