Epigenetics of ciliates

Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Chalker, Douglas L ^a   Meyer, Eric ^b   Mochizuki, Kazufumi ^c  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^c ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CILIOPHORA; PROTOZOA; TETRAHYMENA;

HISTONE;

ANIMAL; CELL NUCLEUS; CILIATE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GENOME; GERM CELL; METABOLISM; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; CILIOPHORA; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; GERM CELLS; HISTONES; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84881048808     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19430264     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a017764     Document Type: Article

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