The actin gene of the glaucocystophyte Cyanophora paradoxa: Analysis of the coding region and introns, and an actin phylogeny of eukaryotes

Current Genetics

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 439-446

  Bhattacharya, Debashish ^a   Weber, Klaus ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Actin; Cyanophora paradoxa; Introns; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; RIBOSOME DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTEMIA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRUSTACEA; DNA SEQUENCE; EUKARYOTE; GENE ISOLATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GREEN ALGA; INTRON; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RED ALGA;

ACTINS; ALGAE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; EVOLUTION; GENES, PLANT; GENETIC CODE; HUMANS; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY;

ALGAE; ARTEMIA; CHLOROPHYTA; CRUSTACEA; CYANOPHORA; CYANOPHORA PARADOXA; EUKARYOTA; GLAUCOCYSTOPHYCEAE; RHODOPHYTA;

EID: 0030988847     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002940050227     Document Type: Article

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