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Selecting One of Several Mating Types through Gene Segment Joining and Deletion in Tetrahymena thermophila

The unicellular eukaryote Tetrahymena thermophila has seven mating types. Cells can mate only when they recognize cells of a different mating type as non-self. As a ciliate, Tetrahymena separates its germline and soma into two nuclei. During growth the somatic nucleus is responsible for all gene tra...

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Autores principales: Cervantes, Marcella D., Hamilton, Eileen P., Xiong, Jie, Lawson, Michael J., Yuan, Dongxia, Hadjithomas, Michalis, Miao, Wei, Orias, Eduardo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3608545/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23555191
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1001518