The genome of the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum

Nature

Volumn 435, Issue 7038, 2005, Pages 43-57

  Eichinger, I ^a   Pachebat, J A ^a,b   Glockner G ^c   Rajandream, M A ^d   Sucgang, R ^e   Berriman, M ^d   Song, J ^e   Olsen, R ^f   Szafranski, K ^c   Xu, Q ^e   Tunggal, B ^a   Kummerfeld, S ^b   Madera, M ^b   Konfortov, B A ^b   Rivero, F ^a   Bankier, A T ^b   Lehmann, R ^c   Hamlin, N ^d   Davies, R ^d   Gaudet, P ^g   Fey, P ^g   Pilcher, K ^g   Chen, G ^e   Saunders, D ^d   Sodergren, E ^e   Davis, P ^d   Kerhornou, A ^d   Nie, X ^e   Hall, N ^d,t   Anjard, C ^f   Hemphill, L ^e   Bason, N ^d   Farbrother, P ^a   Desany, B ^e   Just, E ^g   Morio, T ^h   Rost, R ⁱ   Churcher, C ^d   Cooper, J ^d   Haydock, S ^j   Van Driessche, N ^e   Cronin, A ^d   Goodhead, I ^d   Muzny, D ^e   Mourier, T ^d   Pain, A ^d   Lu, M ^e   Harper, D ^d   Lindsay, R ^e   Hauser, H ^d   James, K ^d   Quiles, M ^e   Madan Babu, M ^b   Saito, T ^k   Buchrieser, C ^l   Wardroper, A ^b,m   Felder, M ^c   Thangavelu, M ⁿ   Johnson, D ^d   Knights, A ^d   Loulseged, H ^e   Mungall, K ^d   Oliver, K ^d   Price, C ^d   Quail, M A ^d   Urushihara, H ^h   Hernandez, J ^e   Rabbinowitsch, E ^d   Steffen, D ^e   Sanders, M ^d   Ma, J ^e   Kohara, Y ^o   Sharp, S ^d   Simmonds, M ^d   Spiegler, S ^d   Tivey, A ^d   Sugano, S ^p   White, B ^d   Walker, D ^d   Woodward, J ^d   Winckler, T ^q   Tanaka, Y ^h   Shaulsky, G ^e   Schleicher, M ⁱ   Weinstock, G ^e   Rosenthal, A ^c   Cox, E C ^r   Chisholm, R L ^g   Gibbs, R ^e   Loomis, W F ^f   Platzer, M ^c   Kay, R R ^b   Williams, J ^s   Dear, P H ^b   Noegel, A A ^a   Barrell, B ^d   Kuspa, A ^e   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c FRITZ LIPMANN INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^d WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^e BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f SECTION OF CELL AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (United States)

^g NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^j UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^k HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^l INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^m UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

ⁿ HUTCHISON MRC RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^o NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

^p UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^q GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^r PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^s UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^t J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; CYTOLOGY; DNA; ENZYMES; FUNGI; GENES; METABOLISM; PROTOZOA;

CENTROMERES; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; POLYKETIDE SYNTHASES; RIBOSOMAL DNA (RDNA);

GENETIC ENGINEERING;

ABC TRANSPORTER; POLYKETIDE SYNTHASE; PROTEOME; RIBOSOME DNA; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; TRANSFER RNA;

GENOME;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; GENETIC CODE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TELOMERE; ANIMAL; CELL ADHESION; CELL MOTION; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; DICTYOSTELIUM; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYMOLOGY; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENE DUPLICATION; GENETICS; GENOME; GENOMICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TRANSPOSON;

AMOEBOZOA; ANIMALIA; DICTYOSTELIUM; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; FUNGI; PROTOZOA;

ANIMALS; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BASE COMPOSITION; CELL ADHESION; CELL MOVEMENT; CENTROMERE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DICTYOSTELIUM; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOME; GENOMICS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROTEOME; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA, TRANSFER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TELOMERE;

EID: 18344395923     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03481     Document Type: Article

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