The mitochondrial genome of Arabidopsis thaliana contains 57 genes in 366,924 nucleotides

Nature Genetics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 57-61

  Unseld, Michael ^a   Marienfeld, Joachim R ^c   Brandt, Petra ^b   Brennicke, Axel ^c  

^a Replicon GmbH   (Germany)

^b HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARABIDOPSIS; CODON; GENE MAPPING; GENOME; INTRON; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA EDITING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSPOSON;

ARABIDOPSIS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CODON; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DNA, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOTIDES; OPEN READING FRAMES; PLASTIDS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA EDITING; RNA, TRANSFER;

EID: 0031021278     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng0197-57     Document Type: Review

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