Highly Precise and Developmentally Programmed Genome Assembly in Paramecium Requires Ligase IV–Dependent End Joining

Gene expression in a paleopolyploid: a transcriptome resource for the ciliate Paramecium tetraurelia

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The Conjugation-Specific Die5 Protein Is Required for Development of the Somatic Nucleus in both Paramecium and Tetrahymena

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A Domesticated piggyBac Transposase Plays Key Roles in Heterochromatin Dynamics and DNA Cleavage during Programmed DNA Deletion in Tetrahymena thermophila

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Epigenetic inheritance in ciliates

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PiggyMac, a domesticated piggyBac transposase involved in programmed genome rearrangements in the ciliate Paramecium tetraurelia

(2009) C. Baudry et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

A Functional Role for Transposases in a Large Eukaryotic Genome

(2009) M. Nowacki et al.   SCIENCE

Developmental genome rearrangements in ciliates: a natural genomic subtraction mediated by non-coding transcripts

(2009) Sandra Duharcourt et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

Eukaryotic DNA Ligases: Structural and Functional Insights

(2008) Tom Ellenberger et al.   Annual Review of Biochemistry

piggyBac can bypass DNA synthesis during cut and paste transposition

(2008) Rupak Mitra et al.   EMBO JOURNAL

Developmentally programmed DNA splicing in Paramecium reveals short-distance crosstalk between DNA cleavage sites

(2008) Ariane Gratias et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

MMEJ repair of double-strand breaks (director’s cut): deleted sequences and alternative endings

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