Moving pictures and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis show only linear mitochondrial DNA molecules from yeasts with linear-mapping and circular-mapping mitochondrial genomes

Current Genetics

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 3-11

  Jacobs, Michael A ^a   Payne, Shannon R ^a   Bendich, Arnold J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Mitochondrial genome; Pichia; Pulsed field gel electrophoresis; Williopsis

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA STRUCTURE; ENDOMYCETALES; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FUNGAL GENETICS; GENOME; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA, CIRCULAR; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; GENOME, FUNGAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MICROSCOPY, VIDEO; PICHIA; SACCHAROMYCETALES;

PICHIA; SACCHAROMYCETALES; WILLIOPSIS;

EID: 0030037235     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002940050093     Document Type: Article

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