Coding genes and molecular structures of the diffusible signalling proteins (pheromones) of the polar ciliate, Euplotes nobilii

Marine Genomics

Volumn 8, Issue , 2012, Pages 9-13

  Vallesi, Adriana ^a   Alimenti, Claudio ^a   Pedrini, Bill ^b,e   Di Giuseppe, Graziano ^c   Dini, Fernando ^c   Wüthrich, Kurt ^b,d   Luporini, Pierangelo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^d SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Ciliate macronuclear genes; Ciliate mating types; Cold adapted proteins; Polar microorganisms

Indexed keywords

PHEROMONE; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; EUPLOTES; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; ARCTIC REGIONS; BASE SEQUENCE; EUPLOTES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHEROMONES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS;

CILIOPHORA; EUPLOTES; EUPLOTES NOBILII; PROTOZOA;

EID: 84870386886     PISSN: 18747787     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margen.2012.03.004     Document Type: Article

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