Optional elements in the chloroplast DNAs of Chlamydomonas eugametos and C. moewusii: Unidirectional gene conversion and co-conversion of adjacent markers in high viability crosses

Current Genetics

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 356-365

  Bussières, Johanne ^a   Lemieux, Claude ^a   Lee, Robert W ^b   Turmel, Monique ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chlamydomonas eugametos Chlamydomonas moewusii; Chloroplast DNA polymorphisms; Gene conversion; Mobile elements

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPLAST DNA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDOMONAS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE CONVERSION; GENE DELETION; GENE LOCUS; GREEN ALGA; INHERITANCE; INTRON; MARKER GENE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; SURVIVAL;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; CHIMERA; CHLAMYDOMONAS; CHLOROPLASTS; CROSSES, GENETIC; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENE CONVERSION; GENETIC MARKERS; HYBRID CELLS; INTRONS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SPORES; STREPTOMYCIN;

ALGAE; CHLAMYDOMONAS EUGAMETOS; CHLAMYDOMONAS MOEWUSII; CHLOROPHYTA;

EID: 0029838794     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002940050144     Document Type: Article

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