The mitochondrial genomes of the ciliates Euplotes minuta and Euplotes crassus

BMC Genomics

Volumn 10, Issue , 2009, Pages 514-

  de Graaf, Rob M ^a   van Alen, Theo A ^a   Dutilh, Bas E ^b   Kuiper, Jan W P ^a,d   van Zoggel, Hanneke J A A ^a,e   Huynh, Minh B ^a,e   Görtz, Hans Dieter ^c   Huynen, Martijn A ^b   Hackstein, Johannes H P ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e Université Paris Est Créteil   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOOXYGENASE 1; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; RIBOSOME PROTEIN; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; EUPLOTES; EUPLOTES CRASSUS; EUPLOTES MINUTA; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC SIMILARITY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME;

ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; EUPLOTES; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYLOGENY; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RIBOSOMAL PROTEINS; RNA, TRANSFER;

CILIOPHORA; EUPLOTES; EUPLOTES MINUTA; MONEUPLOTES CRASSUS; NYCTOTHERUS OVALIS; PARAMECIUM; PARAMECIUM AURELIA; TETRAHYMENA;

EID: 70749160527     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-10-514     Document Type: Article

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