Causes and effects of nuclear genome reduction

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 601-608

  Keeling, Patrick J ^a   Slamovits, Claudio H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA POLYMERASE;

APICOMPLEXA; CELL SIZE; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; ENDOSYMBIOSIS; EUKARYOTE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INTERACTION; GENETIC CORRELATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOME SIZE; HOST CELL; INTERSPECIFIC RELATIONSHIP; INTRON; MICROSPORIDA; PARAMECIUM; PLASMODIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TARGETING; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY; THEILERIA; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME; GENOMICS; HUMANS;

APICOMPLEXA; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; EUKARYOTA; MICROSPORIDIA; PARAMECIUM; PLASMODIUM (APICOMPLEXA); THEILERIA;

EID: 27444447414     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gde.2005.09.003     Document Type: Review

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