Sequencing of random Euplotes crassus macronuclear genes supports a high frequency of +1 translational frameshifting

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 2098-2105

  Klobutcher, Lawrence A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; PROTOZOAL DNA; PROTOZOAL RNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME MAP; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CYTOLOGY; DNA SEQUENCE; EUPLOTES; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MOLECULAR CLONING; OPEN READING FRAME; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIBOSOMAL FRAMESHIFTING; START CODON; STOP CODON;

ANIMALS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CODON, INITIATOR; CODON, TERMINATOR; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA, PROTOZOAN; EUPLOTES; FRAMESHIFTING, RIBOSOMAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENES, PROTOZOAN; OPEN READING FRAMES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PROTOZOAN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

CILIOPHORA; EUPLOTES; MONEUPLOTES CRASSUS;

EID: 29144440929     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.4.12.2098-2105.2005     Document Type: Article

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