Identification of a Giardia krr1 homolog gene and the secondarily anucleolate condition of Giaridia lamblia

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 391-394

  Xin, De Dong ^a,b   Wen, Jian Fan ^a   He, De ^a,b   Lu, Si Qi ^c  

^a KUNMING INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Evolution; Giardia lamblia; krr1 gene; Nucleolus; rRNA processing

Indexed keywords

FIBRILLARIN; PROTEIN; RIBOSOME DNA; RIBOSOME RNA; SMALL NUCLEOLAR RNA; STAR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; EUKARYOTE; GENE; GIARDIA; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; KRR1 GENE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOLUS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA PROCESSING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TAXONOMY;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEOLUS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; MITOCHONDRIA; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 14544286092     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msi052     Document Type: Article

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