Generation and maintenance of tandemly repeated extrachromosomal plasmid DNA in Chlamydomonas chloroplasts

Plant Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 635-648

  Suzuki, Hideki ^a,c   Ingersoll, John ^a,d   Stern, David B ^b   Kindle, Karen L ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service and Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CHLOROPLAST; DNA REPLICATION ORIGIN; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; GENOME; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; PLASMID;

ANIMALS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CHLOROPLASTS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC VECTORS; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; MODELS, GENETIC; PLASMIDS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; REPLICATION ORIGIN; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

EID: 0031128428     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.1997.11040635.x     Document Type: Article

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