title: alpha-Tubulin of Histriculus cavicola (Ciliophora; Hypotrichea).
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.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Microbiología Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Sevilla, Espanña.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Pérez-Romero
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Villalobo
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Díaz-Ramos
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Calvo
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Santos-Rosa
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Torres
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D016798:Ciliophora / Q000235:genetics*; D017125:Genes, Protozoan / Q000235:genetics*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D014404:Tubulin / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D014404:Tubulin