The fungal mitochondrial genome project: Evolution of fungal mitochondrial genomes and their gene expression

Current Genetics

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 380-395

  Paquin, Bruno ^a   Laforest, Marie Josée ^b   Forget, Lise ^b   Roewer, Ingeborg ^b   Wang, Zhang ^b   Longcore, Joyce ^c   Lang, B Franz ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chytridiomycetes; Comparative genomics; Gene expression; Mitochondria

Indexed keywords

ENDONUCLEASE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; RIBOSOME RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; DATA BASE; EVOLUTION; FUNGAL GENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; INTRON; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOON; RNA EDITING;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENETIC CODE; GENOME, FUNGAL; INTRONS; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHYLOGENY; RIBOSOMAL PROTEINS; RNA EDITING;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ACANTHAMOEBA CASTELLANII; ANIMALIA; CHLOROPHYTA; CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA; FUNGI; PROTISTA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0030993742     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002940050220     Document Type: Article

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