Clustering of the nitrite reductase gene and a light-regulated gene with nitrate assimilation loci in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

Planta

Volumn 206, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 259-265

  Quesada, Alberto ^a   Gómez, Ia ^a   Fernández, Emilio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCUS; MESSENGER RNA; NITRITE REDUCTASE; NITROGEN METABOLISM; PHENOTYPE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENES; LIGHT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NITRATES; NITRITE REDUCTASES; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ALGAE; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CYANOBACTERIA; EMBRYOPHYTA; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0032189982     PISSN: 00320935     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004250050398     Document Type: Article

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