The use of Chlamydomonas (Chlorophyta: Volvocales) as a model algal system for genome studies and the elucidation of photosynthetic processes

Journal of Phycology

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 907-917

  Davies, John P ^a   Grossman, Arthur R ^b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chlamydomonas; Chloroplast; Expressed sequence tag; Genome project; Microarray; Photosynthesis

Indexed keywords

CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CHLOROPLAST; GENE SEQUENCING; GENOME ANALYSIS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS;

ALGAE; CHLAMYDOMONAS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CHLOROPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; VOLVOCALES;

EID: 0032429238     PISSN: 00223646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1529-8817.1998.340907.x     Document Type: Review

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