Retrotransposon-mediated restoration of Chlorella telomeres: Accumulation of Zepp retrotransposons at termini of newly formed minichromosomes

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 31, Issue 15, 2003, Pages 4646-4653

  Yamamoto, Yoshitaka ^a   Fujimoto, Yuhki ^a   Arai, Ryota ^a   Fujie, Makoto ^a   Usami, Shoji ^a   Yamada, Takashi ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL ISOLATION; CHLORELLA VULGARIS; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; MINICHROMOSOME; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RETROPOSON; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TANDEM REPEAT; TELOMERE; CHEMISTRY; CHLORELLA; CHROMOSOME; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

ALGAE; CHLORELLA VULGARIS;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHLORELLA; CHROMOSOMES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RETROELEMENTS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TELOMERE;

EID: 0041660889     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkg490     Document Type: Article

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