Mitochondrial DNA of the coral Sarcophyton glaucum contains a gene for a homologue of bacterial MutS: A possible case of gene transfer from the nucleus to the mitochondrion

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 419-431

  Pont Kingdon, Geneviève ^a,c   Okada, Norichika A ^a   Macfarlane, Jane L ^a   Timothy Beagley, C ^a   Watkins Sims, Cristi D ^a,d   Cavalier Smith, Thomas ^b,e   Desmond Clark Walker, G ^b   Wolstenholme, David R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cnidaria; Genetic code; Mismatch repair; Mitochondrial genes; MutS gene; Nucleotide sequences; Phylogenetic analysis; Sarcophyton glaucum; Soft coral; Transfer RNA gene

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME B; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE DEHYDROGENASE; TRANSFER RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BASE MISPAIRING; CELL NUCLEUS; COELENTERATE; DNA REPAIR; GENE STRUCTURE; GENE TRANSFER; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL NUCLEUS; CNIDARIA; CODON; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC CODE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTS DNA MISMATCH-BINDING PROTEIN; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHYLOGENY; RNA, TRANSFER, MET; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ALCYONACEA; ALCYONARIA; ANIMALIA; ANTHOZOA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CNIDARIA; COELENTERATA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; INVERTEBRATA; METAZOA; METRIDIUM SENILE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SARCOPHYTON GLAUCUM; ZOANTHARIA;

EID: 0031979635     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00006321     Document Type: Article

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