An ancestral mitochondrial DNA resembling a eubacterial genome in miniature

Nature

Volumn 387, Issue 6632, 1997, Pages 493-497

  Lang, B Franz ^a   Burger, Gertraud ^a   O'Kelly, Charles J ^b   Cedergren, Robert ^a   Golding, G Brian ^c   Lemieux, Claude ^d   Sankoff, David ^a   Turmel, Monique ^d   Gray, Michael W ^e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b BIGELOW LABORATORY FOR OCEAN SCIENCES   (United States)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^e DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; RIBOSOME PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENOME; MITOCHONDRION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTOZOON;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DNA, PROTOZOAN; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RNA, PROTOZOAN; RNA, TRANSFER; ZOOMASTIGOPHORA;

EID: 0031007907     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/387493a0     Document Type: Article

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