A new scrambled gene in the ciliate Uroleptus

Gene

Volumn 368, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 72-77

  Chang, Wei Jen ^a   Kuo, Shiuhyang ^a   Landweber, Laura F ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hypotrich; Macronucleus; Micronucleus; Spirotrich

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; PROTEIN DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNKNOWN SCRAMBLED GENE 1 PROTEIN;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHROMOSOME; CILIATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA SPLICING; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOME; INTRON; MACRONUCLEUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES; CILIOPHORA; DNA, PROTOZOAN; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, PROTOZOAN; MICRONUCLEUS, GERMLINE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA;

CILIOPHORA; UROLEPTUS;

EID: 33344477283     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2005.10.008     Document Type: Article

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