Centromere sequence and dynamics in Dictyostelium discoideum

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1809-1816

  Glöckner, Gernot ^a   Heidel, Andrew J ^a  

^a FRITZ LIPMANN INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SPECIES COMPARISON; TRANSPOSON; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CLASSIFICATION; DICTYOSTELIUM; GENETICS; GENOME; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; EUKARYOTA; PROTISTA;

RIBOSOME DNA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURES; DICTYOSTELIUM; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 64549158859     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkp017     Document Type: Article

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