Extraordinary genome stability in the ciliate Paramecium tetraurelia

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

Volumn 109, Issue 47, 2012, Pages 19339-19344

  Sung, Way ^a   Tucker, Abraham E ^a   Doak, Thomas G ^a   Choi, Eunjin ^a   Thomas, W Kelley ^b   Lynch, Michael ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

Drift barrier; Mutation accumulation

Indexed keywords

DNA; DNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; CILIATE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; MITOCHONDRION; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PARAMECIUM TETRAURELIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; DNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; MITOCHONDRIA; MUTATION RATE; PARAMECIUM TETRAURELIA; REPRODUCTION;

CILIOPHORA; EUKARYOTA; PARAMECIUM; PARAMECIUM TETRAURELIA; PROTISTA;

EID: 84868579284     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1210663109     Document Type: Article

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