Antarctic and Arctic populations of the ciliate Euplotes nobilii show common pheromone-mediated cell-cell signaling and cross-mating

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

Volumn 108, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 3181-3186

  Di Giuseppe, Graziano ^a   Erra, Fabrizio ^a   Dini, Fernando ^a   Alimenti, Claudio ^b   Vallesi, Adriana ^b   Pedrini, Bill ^c   Wüthrich, Kurt ^c,d   Luporini, Pierangelo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ciliate mating types and sexual interactions; Microbial ecology; NMR structures; Polar biology; Signaling by water borne pheromones

Indexed keywords

PHEROMONE; SMALL SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL RNA;

ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC; ARTICLE; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CELL COMMUNICATION; CILIATE; CROSS BREEDING; CROSS FERTILIZATION; EUPLOTES; EUPLOTES NOBILII; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; GENE SEQUENCE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HORMONE RELEASE; HORMONE STRUCTURE; ISOLATION PROCEDURE; MATING; MICROBIAL GROWTH; MICROBIAL IDENTIFICATION; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTISTAN COMMUNITY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TAXONOMY; WILD TYPE;

ANTARCTIC REGIONS; ARCTIC REGIONS; CELL COMMUNICATION; CLASSIFICATION; EUPLOTES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PHEROMONES; PHYLOGENY; REPRODUCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

CILIOPHORA; EUKARYOTA; EUPLOTES; EUPLOTES NOBILII; PROTOZOA;

EID: 79952769275     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1019432108     Document Type: Article

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