Dinoflagellate tandem array gene transcripts are highly conserved and not polycistronic

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

Volumn 109, Issue 39, 2012, Pages 15793-15798

  Beauchemin, Mathieu ^a   Roy, Sougata ^a   Daoust, Philippe ^a,b   Dagenais Bellefeuille, Steve ^a   Bertomeu, Thierry ^a,d   Letourneau, Louis ^b   Lang, B Franz ^c   Morse, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Universite de Montreal   (Canada)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; ENZYME; RNA; SPACER DNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ALGA; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; AT RICH SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DINOFLAGELLATE; DNA BINDING; GC RICH SEQUENCE; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENOME; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; LINGULODINIUM POLYEDRUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RNA SEQUENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TANDEM REPEAT; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

BASE SEQUENCE; DINOFLAGELLIDA; GENES, PROTOZOAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; RNA, PROTOZOAN; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ALGAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DINOPHYCEAE; LINGULODINIUM; LINGULODINIUM POLYEDRUM;

EID: 84866848192     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1206683109     Document Type: Article

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