Comparative genomics of the social amoebae Dictyostelium discoideum and Dictyostelium purpureum

Genome Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Sucgang, Richard ^a   Kuo, Alan ^b   Tian, Xiangjun ^c   Salerno, William ^a   Parikh, Anup ^a   Feasley, Christa L ^d   Dalin, Eileen ^b   Tu, Hank ^b   Huang, Eryong ^a   Barry, Kerrie ^b   Lindquist, Erika ^b   Shapiro, Harris ^b   Bruce, David ^b   Schmutz, Jeremy ^b   Salamov, Asaf ^b   Fey, Petra ^e   Gaudet, Pascale ^e   Anjard, Christophe ^f   Babu, M Madan ^g   Basu, Siddhartha ^e   Bushmanova, Yulia ^e   van der Wel, Hanke ^d   Katoh Kurasawa, Mariko ^a   Dinh, Christopher ^a   Coutinho, Pedro M ^h   Saito, Tamao ⁱ   Elias, Marek ^j   Schaap, Pauline ^k   Kay, Robert R ^g   Henrissat, Bernard ^h   Eichinger, Ludwig ^l   Rivero, Francisco ^m   Putnam, Nicholas H ^c   West, Christopher M ^d   Loomis, William F ^f   Chisholm, Rex L ^e   Shaulsky, Gad ^a,c   Strassmann, Joan E ^c   Queller, David C ^c   Kuspa, Adam ^a,c   Grigoriev, Igor V ^b   more..

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DOE JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f SECTION OF CELL AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (United States)

^g MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^h CNRS   (France)

ⁱ SOPHIA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^j CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^k UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^l UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^m UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

more..

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; ACTIN; CARBOHYDRATE; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; POLYKETIDE SYNTHASE; PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE; RHO GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; MICROSATELLITE DNA; PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN-HISTIDINE KINASE;

ARTICLE; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DICTYOSTELIUM; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; DICTYOSTELIUM PURPUREUM; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMICS; MICROBIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORTHOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN GLYCOSYLATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SIMPLE SEQUENCE REPEAT; SYNTENY; ANIMAL; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; GENOME; GENOME SIZE; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

AMOEBOZOA; DICTYOSTELIIDA; DICTYOSTELIUM; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; DICTYOSTELIUM PURPUREUM;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DICTYOSTELIUM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENETIC SPECIATION; GENOME; GENOME SIZE; GENOMICS; HUMANS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYKETIDE SYNTHASES; PROTEIN KINASES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 79952057869     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2011-12-2-r20     Document Type: Article

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