Tantalizing Glimpses into a Fragmented Genome
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Tantalizing Glimpses into a Fragmented Genome
Oxytricha trifallax is an unusual enough organism on the outside. Neither plant nor animal, covered with tiny hair-like protuberances, this one-celled protozoan cruises ponds and puddles in search of microbial meals. But even more unusual is what’s inside. Like other ciliates, O. trifallax has two nuclei: a micronucleus, which contains its entire genome, and a macronucleus, which houses an edit...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLoS Biology
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1545-7885
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001470