A broad phylogenetic survey unveils the diversity and evolution of telomeres in eukaryotes

Genome Biology and Evolution

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 468-483

  Fulnečková, Jana ^a   Ševčíková, Tereza ^a,b,c   Fajkus, Jiří ^a,b   Lukešová, Alena ^d   Lukeš, Martin ^a   Vlček, Čestmír ^a   Lang, B Franz ^e   Kim, Eunsoo ^f   Eliáš, Marek ^c,g   Sýkorová, Eva ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

^b MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSTRAVA   (Czech Republic)

^d INSTITUTE OF SOIL BIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^e Universite de Montreal   (Canada)

^f DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^g CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Algae; Comparative genomics; Excavata; Goniomonas; Telomerase activity

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; APICOMPLEXA; ARABIDOPSIS; CHLAMYDOMONAS; DINOPHYCEAE; EUKARYOTA; EXCAVATA; GLAUCOCYSTOPHYCEAE; GONIOMONAS; HAPTOPHYCEAE; JAKOBIDAE; KLEBSORMIDIOPHYCEAE; RHODOPHYTA; STRAMENOCHROMA; STREPTOPHYTA; VIRIDIPLANTAE; XANTHOPHYCEAE;

EID: 84876574456     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17596653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evt019     Document Type: Article

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