Ciliate Literature

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Literature about nuclear duality in Ciliates

There is a lot of literature about ciliates, and particularly about the nuclear duality in ciliates. Below is a listing of surveys, textbooks, and other book chapters.
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Surveys:

E.H. Blackburn and K.M. Karrer, Genomic reorganization in ciliated protozoans, Annual Reviews in Genetics 20 (1986), 501 - 521.
R.S. Coyne, D.L. Chalker and M-C Yao, Genome downsizing during ciliate development: Division of labor through chromosome restructuring, Annual Reviews in Genetics 30 (1996), 557 - 578.
C.L. Jahn and L.E. Klobutcher, Genome remodeling in ciliated protozoa, Annual Reviews in Microbiology 56 (2002), 489 - 520.
S.A. Juranek and H.J. Lipps, New Insights into the Macronuclear Development in Ciliates, International Review of Cytology, 262 (2007), 219-251
D.M. Prescott, The DNA of ciliated protozoa, Microbiological Reviews 58:2 (1994), 233 - 267 [pdf]
D.M. Prescott, Genome Gymnastics:Unique modes of DNA evolution and processing in ciliates, Nature Reviews 1 (2000), 191 - 198. [pdf]

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Research articles:

L.A. Klobutcher, Characterization of in vivo developmental chromosome fragmentation intermediates in E. Crassus, Molecular Cell 4 (1999), 695 - 704.
L.A. Klobutcher and G. Herrick, Consensus inverted terminal repeat sequence of Paramecium IESs: resemblance to termini Tc1-related and Euplotes Tec transposons, Nucleic Acids Research 23:11 (1995), 2006-2013.
S. Nakayama and H. Endoh, Preferential cleavage of Paramecium DNA mediated by the C. Elegans Tc1 transposase in vitro, Genes Genet. Sys 78 (2003), 391 - 398