The apocytochrome-b gene in Chlorogonium elongatum (Chlamydomonadaceae): An intronic GIY-YIG ORF in green algal mitochondria

Current Genetics

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 414-418

  Kroymann, Jürgen ^a   Zetsche, Klaus ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

cob; GIY YIG ORF; Green alga; Group I intron

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME B; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; CHLAMYDOMONAS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; GENE LOCATION; GREEN ALGA; INTRON; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALGAE, GREEN; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; APOPROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CYTOCHROME B GROUP; CYTOCHROMES B; GENES, PLANT; INTRONS; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OPEN READING FRAMES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ALGAE; CHLAMYDOMONADACEAE; CHLAMYDOMONAS; CHLAMYDOMONAS SMITHII; CHLOROGONIUM; CHLOROGONIUM ELONGATUM; CHLOROPHYTA; FUNGI;

EID: 0030955692     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002940050224     Document Type: Article

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