Mosaic open reading frames in the Arabidopsis thaliana mitochondrial genome

Biological Chemistry

Volumn 378, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 859-862

  Marienfeld, Joachim R ^a,b   Unseld, Michael ^a,c   Brandt, Petra ^a,d   Brennicke, Axel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b Axaron Bioscience AG   (Germany)

^c Replicon GmbH   (Germany)

^d HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Genomic recombination; Mosaic genes; Open reading frames; Plant mitochondria

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA RECOMBINATION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENOME; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PHENOTYPE; POLLEN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 0030746945     PISSN: 14316730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/bchm.1997.378.8.859     Document Type: Article

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