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SUBMITTER: Sperling L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC118014 | biostudies-literature | 2002 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sperling Linda L Dessen Philippe P Zagulski Marek M Pearlman Ron E RE Migdalski Andrzey A Gromadka Robert R Froissard Marine M Keller Anne-Marie AM Cohen Jean J
Eukaryotic cell 20020601 3
We report a random survey of 1 to 2% of the somatic genome of the free-living ciliate Paramecium tetraurelia by single-run sequencing of the ends of plasmid inserts. As in all ciliates, the germ line genome of Paramecium (100 to 200 Mb) is reproducibly rearranged at each sexual cycle to produce a somatic genome of expressed or potentially expressed genes, stripped of repeated sequences, transposons, and AT-rich unique sequence elements limited to the germ line. We found the somatic genome to be ...[more]