Mitochondrial DNA rearrangements associated with mF plasmid integration and plasmodial longevity in Physarum polycephalum

Current Genetics

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 178-187

  Nakagawa, Catherine Curtis ^a   Jones, Elsy Perez ^b   Miller, Dennis L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Mitochondrial DNA; Mitochondrial plasmid; Physarum polycephalum; Plasmodial senescence

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PLASMID DNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA RECOMBINATION; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE INSERTION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; LIFESPAN; LONGEVITY; NONHUMAN; PHYSARUM POLYCEPHALUM; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENESCENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENE REARRANGEMENT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYSARUM POLYCEPHALUM; PLASMIDS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0031971154     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002940050325     Document Type: Article

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