Distinctive origins of group I introns found in the COXI genes of three green algae

Gene

Volumn 213, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 1-7

  Watanabe, Kazuo I ^a   Ehara, Megumi ^a   Inagaki, Yuji ^b   Ohama, Takeshi ^b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b 1 1 Murasaki cho ^*  (Japan)

Author keywords

Chlorella vulgaris; Cytochrome c oxidase subunit I; Frameshift; Group I intron; Intron homing; Protosiphon botryoides; Scenedesmus quadricauda

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; NUCLEOTIDE; RIBOSOME RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHLORELLA; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GREEN ALGA; INTRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSLATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ALGAE, GREEN; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CHLORELLA; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; ENDONUCLEASES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENES, PLANT; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

ALGAE; CHLORELLA VULGARIS; CHLOROPHYTA; PROTOSIPHON BOTRYOIDES; SCENEDESMUS QUADRICAUDA;

EID: 0032526244     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(98)00235-2     Document Type: Article

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