Accumulation of spontaneous mutations in the ciliate Tetrahymena thermophila

Genetics

Volumn 195, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 527-540

  Long, Hong An ^a,b   Paixão, Tiago ^c   Azevedo, Ricardo B R ^a   Zufall, Rebecca A ^a  

^a University of Houston   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AUSTRIA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL POPULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DELETERIOUS MUTATION; GENOME; GERMLINE GENOME; HAPLOIDY; HOMOZYGOTE; MUTATION; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATIC MUTATION; SPONTANEOUS MUTATION; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

DELETERIOUS MUTATION RATE; DOMINANCE; LETHAL MUTATIONS; MUTATIONAL ROBUSTNESS; PROTIST;

EUKARYOTA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC FITNESS; GENOME; GERM-LINE MUTATION; HOMOZYGOTE; MUTATION; MUTATION RATE; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE DELETION; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

EID: 84884971597     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 19432631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.113.153536     Document Type: Article

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