RNA-dependent control of gene amplification

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 51, 2010, Pages 22134-22139

  Heyse, Gero ^a   Jönsson, Franziska ^a   Chang, Wei Jen ^b   Lipps, Hans J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

^b HAMILTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ciliates; Copy number; Epigenetics; Genome organization; Nuclear differentiation

Indexed keywords

RNA;

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CILIATE; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; DNA FRAGMENTATION; EPIGENETICS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; MACRONUCLEUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; REPRODUCTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STYLONYCHIA LEMNAE;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES; CILIOPHORA; DNA, PROTOZOAN; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE DOSAGE; GENES, PROTOZOAN; MACRONUCLEUS; MICRONUCLEUS, GERMLINE; MODELS, GENETIC; RNA, PROTOZOAN; RNA, SMALL NUCLEAR;

CILIOPHORA;

EID: 78650663272     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1009284107     Document Type: Article

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