The draft assembly of the radically organized stylonychia lemnae macronuclear genome

Genome Biology and Evolution

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1707-1723

  Aeschlimann, Samuel H ^a   Jönsson, Franziska ^b   Postberg, Jan ^b   Stover, Nicholas A ^c   Petera, Robert L ^c   Lipps, Hans Joachim ^b   Nowacki, Mariusz ^a   Swart, Estienne C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

^c BRADLEY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative fragmentation; Chromosome copy number; Genome rearrangement; Histone variant; Macronuclear genome; Nanochromosome

Indexed keywords

HISTONE;

CILIATE; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOME; MACRONUCLEUS; PHYLOGENY;

CILIOPHORA; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; HISTONES; MACRONUCLEUS; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84926132930     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17596653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evu139     Document Type: Article

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