Two new group-II twintrons in the Euglena gracilis chloroplast are absent in basally branching Euglena species

Current Genetics

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 89-95

  Thompson, Michael D ^a   Zhang, Liqun ^a   Hong, Ling ^b   Hallick, Richard B ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chloroplast; Euglena; Evolution; Twintron

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL LINEAGE; CHLOROPLAST; DNA SEQUENCE; EUGLENA; EUGLENA GRACILIS; INTRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SPLICING;

ANIMALS; CHLOROPLASTS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ELECTROPHORESIS, AGAR GEL; EUGLENA; EUGLENA GRACILIS; INTRONS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PHOTOSYNTHETIC REACTION CENTER COMPLEX PROTEINS; PHOTOSYSTEM II PROTEIN COMPLEX; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SPLICING; RNA, MESSENGER;

EUGLENA; EUGLENA GRACILIS; EUGLENA STELLATA; EUGLENA VIRIDIS;

EID: 0031051379     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002940050180     Document Type: Article

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