Tudor nuclease genes and programmed DNA rearrangements in Tetrahymena thermophila

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1795-1804

  Howard Till, Rachel A ^a,b   Yao, Meng Chao ^a,c  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; NEOMYCIN; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MACRONUCLEUS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REPRODUCTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; GENE DELETION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENES, PROTOZOAN; MACRONUCLEUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEOMYCIN; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; REPRODUCTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE DELETION; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA; TRANSGENES;

CILIOPHORA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; TETRAHYMENA; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

EID: 35348881050     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.00192-07     Document Type: Article

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