Characterization of Toxoplasma gondii subtelomeric-like regions: Identification of a long-range compositional bias that is also associated with gene-poor regions

BMC Genomics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Dalmasso, María C ^a   Carmona, Santiago J ^b   Angel, Sergio O ^a   Agüero, Fernán ^b  

^a Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^b INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOTECNOLÓGICAS   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Subtelomeric heterochromatin; Telomeric Associated Sites (TAS); Toxoplasma gondii; Trinucleotide compositional bias

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H2AX; HISTONE H4;

ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA SEQUENCE; HETEROCHROMATIN; HISTONE METHYLATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SUBTELOMERIC REGION; TELOMERE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; HETEROCHROMATIN; HISTONES; METHYLATION; NUCLEOSOMES; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; TOXOPLASMA;

EID: 84892424856     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-15-21     Document Type: Article

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