Amino Acid Repeats Cause Extraordinary Coding Sequence Variation in the Social Amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Scala, Clea ^a   Tian, Xiangjun ^b   Mehdiabadi, Natasha J ^a,c,d   Smith, Margaret H ^a   Saxer, Gerda ^a   Stephens, Katie ^a   Buzombo, Prince ^a   Strassmann, Joan E ^b   Queller, David C ^b  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^d University of Maryland   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; PROTEOME; REPETITIVE DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DICTYOSTELIUM; ENTAMOEBA; EUKARYOTE; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOSITY; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; NONHUMAN;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; ANIMALS; DICTYOSTELIUM; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC LOCI; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OPEN READING FRAMES; PEPTIDES; PHYLOGENY; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS;

AMOEBA (GENUS); DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 84867021862     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0046150     Document Type: Article

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