Extensive structural conservation exists among several homologs of two Euglena chloroplast group II introns

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 257, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 45-54

  Thompson, M D ^a   Zhang, L ^a   Hong, L ^b   Hallick, R B ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chloroplast; Euglena; Evolution; Group II intron

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHLOROPLAST; EUGLENA; GENETIC CONSERVATION; INTRON; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHLOROPLASTS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EUGLENA; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHOTOSYNTHETIC REACTION CENTER COMPLEX PROTEINS; PHOTOSYSTEM II PROTEIN COMPLEX; PLANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EUGLENA; EUGLENA GRACILIS; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0031430822     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050622     Document Type: Article

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