The unusual way to make a genetically active nucleus

DNA and Cell Biology

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 71-78

  Jönsson, Franziska ^a   Postberg, Jan ^a   Lipps, Hans J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN; CILIATE; DNA SEQUENCE; EXCISION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MACRONUCLEUS; MICRONUCLEUS; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STYLONYCHIA;

ANIMALS; CELL DIVISION; CILIOPHORA; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE REARRANGEMENT; MACRONUCLEUS; MICRONUCLEUS, GERMLINE; MODELS, GENETIC; SEQUENCE DELETION;

CILIOPHORA; EUKARYOTA; MYXOZOA; OXYTRICHA; STYLONYCHIA;

EID: 59949090038     PISSN: 10445498     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/dna.2008.0806     Document Type: Review

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