A 5 S rRNA gene is present in the mitochondrial genome of the protist Reclinomonas americana but is absent from red algal mitochondrial DNA

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 261, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 607-613

  Lang, B Franz ^a   Goff, Lynda J ^b   Gray, Michael W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Evolution; Land plants; Mitochondria; Protists; Red algae

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; RNA 5S; BACTERIAL DNA; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; PLANT DNA; PROTOZOAL DNA;

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; FLAGELLATE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RED ALGA; RNA GENE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RHODOBACTER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; WHEAT;

ALGAE; CHLOROPHYCEAE; CHONDRUS CRISPUS; EMBRYOPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; GRACILARIOPSIS LEMANEIFORMIS; JAKOBIDAE; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); PORPHYRA; PROKARYOTA; PROTISTA; PROTOTHECA WICKERHAMII; RECLINOMONAS AMERICANA; RETORTAMONADIDAE; RHODOPHYTA;

ALGAE, RED; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DNA, PLANT; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MASTIGOPHORA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RHODOBACTER; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 5S; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TRITICUM;

EID: 0030572530     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1996.0486     Document Type: Editorial

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