Analysis of the cluster of ribosomal protein genes in the plastid genome of a unicellular red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae: Translocation of the str cluster as an early event in the rhodophyte-chromophyte lineage of plastid evolution

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 688-695

  Ohta, Niji ^a   Sato, Naoki ^b   Nozaki, Hisayoshi ^c   Kuroiwa, Tsuneyoshi ^c  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SAITAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cyanidiophyceae; Cyanidioschyzon merolae; Plastid genome; Protoflorideophyceae; Ribosomal protein; Translocation of str cluster

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CYANOBACTERIUM; GENE CLUSTER; GENE TRANSLOCATION; GENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLASTID; RED ALGA;

ALGAE, RED; CYANOBACTERIA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; PLASTIDS; RIBOSOMAL PROTEINS;

ALGAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLOROPHYTA; CHROMOPHYTA; CYANIDIOSCHYZON MEROLAE; EMBRYOPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; GLAUCOCYSTOPHYCEAE; PLANTAE; RHODOPHYTA; SYNECHOCYSTIS SP.;

EID: 0031436146     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00006273     Document Type: Article

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