Formal Language Tools for Template-Guided DNA Recombination

摘要

Certain stichotrichous ciliates, single-celled organisms with hair-like structures called cilia, have a well-studied ability to rearrange their DNA during a form of asexual reproduction called conjugation. Ciliates also demonstrate nuclear dualism: each ciliate has both a micronucleus and a macronucleus. The unscrambling of DNA during conjugation occurs when the scrambled version, contained in the micronucleus, is rearranged in a precise way to produce an unscrambled equivalent which forms the macronucleus.