Use of a deviant mitochondrial genetic code in yellow-green algae as a landmark for segregating members within the phylum

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 119-124

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

^a Biohistory Research Hall ^*  (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cytochrome oxidase subunit I; Deviant genetic code; Eustigmatophyta; Xanthophyta

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ALGA; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME SUBUNIT; GENETIC CODE; GREEN ALGA; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ALGAE; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; GENETIC CODE; ISOLEUCINE; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY;

ALGAE; CHLOROPHYTA; EUSTIGMATOPHYCEAE; MONODOPSIS; OPHIOCYTIUM MAJUS; XANTHOPHYCEAE;

EID: 0030765364     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00006210     Document Type: Article

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