1. Shifty Ciliates
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Philip J. Farabaugh and Lawrence A. Klobutcher
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Genetics ,Translational frameshift ,Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology(all) ,Biology ,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology ,Stop codon - Abstract
Recent work suggests that there is a high frequency of programmed +1 translational frameshifting in ciliates of the Euplotes genus. Frequent frameshifting may have been potentiated by stop codon reassignment, which is also a feature of this group.
- Published
- 2002
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