The Naegleria genome: A free-living microbial eukaryote lends unique insights into core eukaryotic cell biology

Research in Microbiology

Volumn 162, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 607-618

  Fritz Laylin, Lillian K ^a   Ginger, Michael L ^b   Walsh, Charles ^c   Dawson, Scott C ^d   Fulton, Chandler ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolution; Genome; Mitosis; Naegleria; Nucleolus; Ploidy

Indexed keywords

RNA; TUBULIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMOEBA (LIFE CYCLE STAGE); ANAEROBIC METABOLISM; ANAPHASE; ARTICLE; CELL DIVISION; CYST (RESTING STAGE); CYTOLOGY; EUKARYOTIC CELL; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; FLAGELLATE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME ANALYSIS; HETEROZYGOTE; INTRON; METAPHASE; MITOSIS SPINDLE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NAEGLERIA GRUBERI; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOLAR LOCALIZATION SIGNAL; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA PROCESSING; SEXUALITY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TELOPHASE; TETRAPLOIDY;

FLAGELLA; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; MITOCHONDRIA; NAEGLERIA; PLASMIDS; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EUKARYOTA; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); NAEGLERIA; NAEGLERIA GRUBERI; PROTISTA;

EID: 79960009200     PISSN: 09232508     EISSN: 17697123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resmic.2011.03.003     Document Type: Article

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