Structure of the germline genome of Tetrahymena thermophila and relationship to the massively rearranged somatic genome

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  Hamilton, Eileen P ^a   Kapusta, Aurélie ^b   Huvos, Piroska E ^c   Bidwell, Shelby L ^d   Zafar, Nikhat ^d   Tang, Haibao ^d   Hadjithomas, Michalis ^d   Krishnakumar, Vivek ^d   Badger, Jonathan H ^d   Caler, Elisabet V ^d   Russ, Carsten ^e   Zeng, Qiandong ^e   Fan, Lin ^e   Levin, Joshua Z ^e   Shea, Terrance ^e   Young, Sarah K ^e   Hegarty, Ryan ^e   Daza, Riza ^e   Gujja, Sharvari ^e   Wortman, Jennifer R ^e   Birren, Bruce W ^e   Nusbaum, Chad ^e   Thomas, Jainy ^b   Carey, Clayton M ^b   Pritham, Ellen J ^b   Feschotte, Cédric ^b   Noto, Tomoko ^f,k   Mochizuki, Kazufumi ^f,k   Papazyan, Romeo ^g   Taverna, Sean D ^g   Dear, Paul H ^h   Cassidy Hanley, Donna M ⁱ   Xiong, Jie ^j   Miao, Wei ^j   Orias, Eduardo ^a   Coyne, Robert S ^d   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^f INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^g JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^h MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^j INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (China)

^k CNRS   (France)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; CHROMOSOME DUPLICATION; CHROMOSOME SIZE; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE LIBRARY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; GENOME ASSEMBLY; GENOME REARRANGEMENT; GERMLINE GENOME; GERMLINE MICRONUCLEUS; MACRONUCLEUS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN CODING GENE; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOMATIC GENOME; TANDEM REPEAT; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA; TRANSPOSON; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETICS;

GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

EID: 85007403727     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.19090.001     Document Type: Article

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