Selecting One of Several Mating Types through Gene Segment Joining and Deletion in Tetrahymena thermophila

PLoS Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Cervantes, Marcella D ^a   Hamilton, Eileen P ^a   Xiong, Jie ^b   Lawson, Michael J ^a   Yuan, Dongxia ^b   Hadjithomas, Michalis ^c   Miao, Wei ^b   Orias, Eduardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (China)

^c J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GERMLINE MICRONUCLEUS; HOMOZYGOSITY; MATING; NONHUMAN; PROGENY; PROMOTER REGION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

REPRODUCTION; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

CILIOPHORA; PROTISTA; TETRAHYMENA; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

EID: 84875452381     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001518     Document Type: Article

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