Tetrahymena pyriformis
"Tetrahymena pyriformis" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A species of ciliate protozoa used extensively in genetic research.
| Descriptor ID |
D013769
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.043.185.650.375.750.850.700
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Tetrahymena pyriformis" by people in Profiles.
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Morin GB, Cech TR. Mitochondrial telomeres: surprising diversity of repeated telomeric DNA sequences among six species of Tetrahymena. Cell. 1988 Feb 12; 52(3):367-74.