The gain of three mitochondrial introns identifies liverworts as the earliest land plants

Nature

Volumn 394, Issue 6694, 1998, Pages 671-674

  Qiu, Yin Long ^a,b   Cho, Yangrae ^a   Cox, J Colin ^a,c   Palmer, Jeffrey D ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PLANT DNA;

EVOLUTION; LIVERWORT; ORDOVICIAN; PLANT;

ARTICLE; EUKARYOTE; FOSSIL; GREEN ALGA; INTRON; LICHENS; MOSS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, PLANT; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; INTRONS; MITOCHONDRIA; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ALGAE; ANTHOCEROTOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; CHLOROPHYTA; EMBRYOPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; MARCHANTIOPHYTA; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 0032514486     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/29286     Document Type: Article

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