Transitions between the Arabidopsis-type and the human-type telomere sequence in green algae (clade Caudivolvoxa, Chlamydomonadales)

Chromosoma

Volumn 125, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 437-451

  Fulnečková, Jana ^a,b   Ševčíková, Tereza ^c   Lukešová, Alena ^d   Sýkorová, Eva ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

^b MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSTRAVA   (Czech Republic)

^d INSTITUTE OF SOIL BIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

18S rDNA phylogeny; Green algae; Telomerase activity; Telomere evolution; TRAP

Indexed keywords

TELOMERASE; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 18S;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARENICOLINIA; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDOMONADALES; CLADISTICS; CLONING; DUNALIELLA; GREEN ALGA; LAST COMMON ANCESTOR; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIF; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STEPHANOSPHAERINIA; TELOMERE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN MOTIF; TELOMERE SHORTENING;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; PHYLOGENY; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE; TELOMERE SHORTENING; VOLVOCIDA;

EID: 84947915453     PISSN: 00095915     EISSN: 14320886     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00412-015-0557-2     Document Type: Article

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