Programmed Minichromosome Elimination as a Mechanism for Somatic Genome Reduction in Tetrahymena thermophila

• Chih-Yi Gabriela Lin,

  Affiliations Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, Genome and Systems Biology Degree Program, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0377-168X

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• I-Ting Lin,

  Affiliation Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5458-4676

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• Meng-Chao Yao

  * E-mail: mcyao@gate.sinica.edu.tw

  Affiliations Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, Genome and Systems Biology Degree Program, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

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