Natural history of transposition in the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii: Use of the AMT4 locus as an experimental system

Genetics

Volumn 173, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 2005-2019

  Kim, Kwang Seo ^a   Kustu, Sydney ^a   Inwood, William ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; DNA; METHYLAMMONIUM;

AMT4 GENE; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CHROMOSOME 8; CHROMOSOME MAP; GENE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON; SPONTANEOUS MUTATION; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CHROMOSOMES; DNA, ALGAL; DRUG RESISTANCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, PROTOZOAN; METHYLAMINES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; RETROELEMENTS;

CHLAMYDOMONAS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CHLOROPHYTA;

EID: 33747849234     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.106.058263     Document Type: Article

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