Dictyostelium finds new roles to model

Genetics

Volumn 185, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 717-726

  Williams, Jeffrey G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA;

AMOEBOZOA; CELL MEMBRANE; CENTROMERE; DICTYOSTELIUM; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOSS; GENE SEQUENCE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PINOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TELOMERE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; GENETICS;

DICTYOSTELIUM;

ANIMALS; DICTYOSTELIUM; MODELS, ANIMAL;

EID: 78349285170     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.110.119297     Document Type: Review

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