Natural Genetic Engineering As Part Of The Normal Life-Cycle

(Murray 1987; Brusca, Hale et al. 1989; Stragier, Kunkel et al. 1989; Popham and Stragier 1992; Wilske, Barbour et al. 1992; Hall and Stokes 1993; Carrasco, Ramaswamy et al. 1994; Komano, Kim et al. 1994; Restrepo, Carter et al. 1994; Carrasco, Buettner et al. 1995; Carrasco and Golden 1995; Danaher, Levin et al. 1995; Blomfield, Kulasekara et al. 1997; Ramaswamy, Carrasco et al. 1997; Dekkers, Phoelich et al. 1998; Golden and Yoon 1998; Klar, Ivanova et al. 1998; Dalgaard and Klar 1999; Gyohda and Komano 2000; Komano, Yoshida et al. 2000; van der Ende, Hopman et al. 2000; Vaisvila, Morgan et al. 2001; Sanchez-Contreras, Martin et al. 2002; Flitman-Tene, Mudahi-Orenstein et al. 2003; Bankhead and Chaconas 2004; Fluit and Schmitz 2004; Tam, Hackett et al. 2004; Carrasco, Holliday et al. 2005; Chaconas 2005; Criss, Kline et al. 2005; Gillings, Holley et al. 2005; Holmes, Kaykov et al. 2005; Kobryn, Burgin et al. 2005; Kobryn and Chaconas 2005; Gyohda, Zhu et al. 2006; Jayaram 2007; Yamada-Inagawa, Klar et al. 2007; Ambur, Davidsen et al. 2009; Cahoon and Seifert 2009; Deitsch, Lukehart et al. 2009; Hill and Davies 2009; Kobryn, Briffotaux et al. 2009; Labbate, Case et al. 2009; Moriarty and Chaconas 2009; Rowe-Magnus 2009; Srikhanta, Dowideit et al. 2009; Tourand, Deneke et al. 2009; Goldfarb and Lichten 2010; Klar 2010; Rossetti, Schirrmeister et al. 2010)

Phase and antigenic variation

(Wilske, Barbour et al. 1992; Komano, Kim et al. 1994; Restrepo, Carter et al. 1994; Danaher, Levin et al. 1995; Blomfield, Kulasekara et al. 1997; Gyohda and Komano 2000; Komano, Yoshida et al. 2000; van der Ende, Hopman et al. 2000; Bhattacharya, Bakre et al. 2002; Flitman-Tene, Mudahi-Orenstein et al. 2003; Tam, Hackett et al. 2004; Criss, Kline et al. 2005; Gyohda, Zhu et al. 2006; Ambur, Davidsen et al. 2009; Deitsch, Lukehart et al. 2009; Hill and Davies 2009; Srikhanta, Dowideit et al. 2009; Bikard and Marraffini 2011; Goto, Duthie et al. 2011)

DNA changes and cell differentiation

(Brusca, Hale et al. 1989; Carrasco, Ramaswamy et al. 1994; Golden and Yoon 1998; Klar, Ivanova et al. 1998; Dalgaard and Klar 1999; Holmes, Kaykov et al. 2005; Yamada-Inagawa, Klar et al. 2007; Astolfi, Salamini et al. 2010; Klar 2010; Rossetti, Schirrmeister et al. 2010)

Ciliate macronuclear development

(Juranek and Lipps 2007; McGrath, Zufall et al. 2007; Postberg, Heyse et al. 2008; Ricard, de Graaf et al. 2008)

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