The strange evolutionary history of plant mitochondrial tRNAs and their aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases

Journal of Heredity

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 333-337

  Small, I ^a   Akashi, K ^a   Chapron, A ^a   Dietrich, A ^b   Duchene A M ^b   Lancelin, D ^a   Marechal Drouard L ^b   Menand, B ^b   Mireau, H ^a,c   Moudden, Y ^a   Ovesna, J ^b   Peeters, N ^a   Sakamoto, W ^b,d   Souciet, G ^b   Wintz, H ^b  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b INST DE BIOL MOLEC DES PLANTES   (France)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^d OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; HISTIDINE TRANSFER RNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

ARABIDOPSIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CYTOSOL; GENE INSERTION; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PLASTID; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ARABIDOPSIS; EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 0032977126     PISSN: 00221503     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jhered/90.3.333     Document Type: Conference Paper

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