RNA-guided DNA rearrangements in ciliates: Is the best genome defence a good offence?

Biology of the Cell

Volumn 104, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 309-325

  Coyne, Robert S ^a   Lhuillier Akakpo, Maoussi ^b   Duharcourt, Sandra ^b  

^a J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b INSTITUT JACQUES MONOD   (France)

Author keywords

Ciliated protozoa; Domesticated transposase; Epigenetic inheritance; Heterochromatin; Programmed genome rearrangement; Small RNAs

Indexed keywords

DNA; HISTONE; RNA;

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME SIZE; CILIATE; DNA END JOINING REPAIR; DNA SPLICING; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENOME; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PARAMECIUM; PARASITE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOON; RNA INTERFERENCE; TETRAHYMENA;

CILIOPHORA; DNA, PROTOZOAN; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; HETEROCHROMATIN; RNA, PROTOZOAN; RNA, SMALL UNTRANSLATED;

CILIOPHORA; EUKARYOTA; MYXOZOA; PARAMECIUM; TETRAHYMENA;

EID: 84861809174     PISSN: 02484900     EISSN: 1768322X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/boc.201100057     Document Type: Article

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