Evolution of eukaryotic transcription: Insights from the genome of Giardia lamblia

Genome Research

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1537-1547

  Best, Aaron A ^a   Morrison, Hilary G ^b   McArthur, Andrew G ^b   Sogin, Mitchell L ^b   Olsen, Gary J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE III; POLYPEPTIDE; RNA POLYMERASE; RNA POLYMERASE II; TATA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR IIB;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME SUBUNIT; EUKARYOTE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ANIMALS; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; POL1 TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION COMPLEX PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ARCHAEA; EUKARYOTA; GIARDIA; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS;

EID: 4444340288     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.2256604     Document Type: Article

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