The origin and evolution of green algal and plant actins

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 275-285

  An, Seon Sook ^a   Möpps, Barbara ^b   Weber, Klaus ^c   Bhattacharya, Debashish ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^c 239 Biology Building ^*

Author keywords

Actin; Evolution; Gene duplication; Green algae; Phylogeny; Plants

Indexed keywords

ALGA; ARTICLE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MICROFILAMENT; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT;

ALGAE; ANEMIA PHYLLITIDIS; BOTRYTIS; CHARALES; CHLOROPHYCEAE; CHLOROPHYTA; COSMARIUM; COSMARIUM BOTRYTIS; CYCAS REVOLUTA; DICOTYLEDONEAE; EMBRYOPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; FILICALES; FILICOPHYTA; GYMNOSPERMAE; LILIOPSIDA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; PRASINOPHYCEAE; PSILOTALES; PSILOTUM; PSILOTUM NUDUM; PSILOTUM TRIQUETRUM; SELAGINELLA; SELAGINELLA APODA; SELAGINELLALES; STREPTOPHYTA; TREBOUXIOPHYCEAE; ULVOPHYCEAE; ZYGNEMATALES;

EID: 0007511433     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a026109     Document Type: Article

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