Interconversion of germline-limited and somatic DNA in a scrambled gene

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 69-73

  Möllenbeck, Matthias ^a   Cavalcanti, Andre R O ^b,c   Jönsson, Franziska ^a   Lipps, Hans J ^a   Landweber, Laura F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c POMONA COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ciliate; Internal eliminated segments; Macronuclear destined segments; Macronucleus; Micronucleus; Pointer; Recombination

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; DNA;

ACTIN I GENE; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CILIATE; CYTOARCHITECTURE; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GERMLINE NUCLEUS; MACRONUCLEUS; MICRONUCLEUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; REPRODUCTION; SOMATIC NUCLEUS; STYLONYCHIA LEMNAE;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CILIOPHORA; DNA; GENE CONVERSION; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; MICRONUCLEUS, GERMLINE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

CILIOPHORA; STYLONYCHIA LEMNAE;

EID: 33745629059     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00239-005-0166-4     Document Type: Article

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