Extensive gene rearrangements in the chloroplast DNAs of Chlamydomonas species featuring multiple dispersed repeats

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 233-243

  Boudreau, Eric ^a   Turmel, Monique ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chlamydomonas; chloroplast DNA; dispersed repeats; evolution; genetic map; green algae; inversions; rearrangements

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPLAST DNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; CHLAMYDOMONAS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CHLOROPLAST; CHROMOSOME INVERSION; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; GENE MAPPING; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; GREEN ALGA; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ALGAE; CHLAMYDOMONAS; CHLAMYDOMONAS GELATINOSA; CHLAMYDOMONAS MOEWUSII; CHLAMYDOMONAS PITSCHMANNII; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CHLOROPHYTA;

EID: 0030061828     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a025560     Document Type: Article

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