A Model for the Evolution of Extremely Fragmented Macronuclei in Ciliates

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Morgens, David W ^a   Lindbergh, Kristen M ^a   Adachi, Marie ^a   Radunskaya, Ami ^a   Cavalcanti, Andre R O ^a  

^a POMONA COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASEXUAL SPORE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIVISION; CELL STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOMAL INSTABILITY; CHROMOSOME NUMBER; CILIATE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); COPY NUMBER VARIATION; COST; EVOLUTION; FITNESS; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; MACRONUCLEUS; MICRONUCLEUS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN;

ANIMALS; CILIOPHORA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MACRONUCLEUS; MODELS, GENETIC;

EID: 84877946739     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0064997     Document Type: Article

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