A deviant mitochondrial genetic code in prymnesiophytes (yellow-algae): UGA codon for tryptophan

Current Genetics

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 296-299

  Hayashi Ishimaru, Yasuko ^a,c   Ehara, Megumi ^b   Inagaki, Yuji ^a   Ohama, Takeshi ^a  

^a Biohistory Research Hall ^*  (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cytochrome c oxidase subunit I; Deviant genetic code; Prymnesiophyta; The codon capture theory

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; MESSENGER RNA; TRYPTOPHAN;

ALGA; ARTICLE; CODON; ENZYME SUBUNIT; GENETIC CODE; GREEN ALGA; HIGHER PLANT; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RED ALGA; RNA EDITING; STOP CODON;

ALGAE; BASE SEQUENCE; CODON; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; GENETIC CODE; PHYLOGENY; PLANTS; RNA, MESSENGER; TRYPTOPHAN;

ALGAE; CHLOROPHYTA; CHONDRUS CRISPUS; EMBRYOPHYTA; EUSTIGMATOPHYCEAE; HAPTOPHYCEAE; ISOCHRYSIS GALBANA; PAVLOVALES; RHODOPHYTA; XANTHOPHYCEAE;

EID: 0030685714     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002940050280     Document Type: Article

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