The Oxytricha trifallax Macronuclear Genome: A Complex Eukaryotic Genome with 16,000 Tiny Chromosomes

PLoS Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Swart, Estienne C ^a   Bracht, John R ^a   Magrini, Vincent ^b   Minx, Patrick ^b   Chen, Xiao ^a   Zhou, Yi ^a   Khurana, Jaspreet S ^a   Goldman, Aaron D ^a   Nowacki, Mariusz ^a,c   Schotanus, Klaas ^a   Jung, Seolkyoung ^d   Fulton, Robert S ^b   Ly, Amy ^b   McGrath, Sean ^b   Haub, Kevin ^b   Wiggins, Jessica L ^a   Storton, Donna ^a   Matese, John C ^a   Parsons, Lance ^a   Chang, Wei Jen ^e   Bowen, Michael S ^f   Stover, Nicholas A ^f   Jones, Thomas A ^d   Eddy, Sean R ^d   Herrick, Glenn A ^g   Doak, Thomas G ^h   Wilson, Richard K ^b   Mardis, Elaine R ^b   Landweber, Laura F ^a   more..

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e HAMILTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^f BRADLEY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^h INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSPOSASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CELL EXPANSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUKARYOTE; FRAGMENTATION REACTION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE DOSAGE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; MACRONUCLEUS; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; OXYTRICHA; OXYTRICHA TRIFALLAX; POPULATION SIZE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN POLYMORPHISM; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TELOMERE;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA COPY NUMBER VARIATIONS; DNA FRAGMENTATION; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; MACRONUCLEUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXYTRICHA; PROTEIN BINDING; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TELOMERE;

EID: 84873111080     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001473     Document Type: Article

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