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alpha-Tubulin of Histriculus cavicola (Ciliophora; Hypotrichea)
P Pérez-Romero1, E Villalobo, C Díaz-Ramos
1Departamento de Microbiología Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Sevilla, Espanña.
Microbiologia (Madrid, Spain)
|March 1, 1997
Abstract:
An alpha-tubulin gene fragment amplified by PCR from the hypotrichous ciliate Histriculus cavicola has been sequenced. This fragment, 1,182 bp long, contains an in-frame "stop" codon (UAA), which in other hypotrichous species codes for a glutamine residue. The comparison of the alpha-tubulin genes from several ciliates classes have revealed amino acid positions which could serve to distinguish these taxonomic groups.