New Insights into the Macronuclear Development in Ciliates

International Review of Cytology

Volumn 262, Issue , 2007, Pages 219-251

  Juranek, Stefan A ^a   Lipps, Hans Joachim ^b  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computation; Differentiation; DNA excision; DNA rearrangement; snRNA

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA;

BIOINFORMATICS; BIOLOGY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; CHROMOSOME LOSS; CILIATE; CYTOLOGY; DNA SEQUENCE; EUKARYOTIC CELL; EXCISION REPAIR; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE STRUCTURE; MACRONUCLEUS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOON; REVIEW; TELOMERE; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CILIOPHORA; DNA FRAGMENTATION; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; MACRONUCLEUS;

CILIOPHORA; EUKARYOTA; MYXOZOA;

EID: 34447093615     PISSN: 00747696     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0074-7696(07)62005-1     Document Type: Review

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