Two types of ftsZ genes isolated from the unicellular primitive red alga Galdieria sulphuraria

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 784-791

  Takahara, Manabu ^b   Takahashi, Hidenori ^a,b   Matsunaga, Sachihiro ^b   Sakai, Atsushi ^b,c   Kawano, Shigeyuki ^b   Kuroiwa, Tsuneyoshi ^b  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c NARA WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

CHEF(PFGE); FtsZ; Galdieria sulphuraria; Gene duplication; Plastid division; Primitive red alga

Indexed keywords

CELL DIVISION; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE DUPLICATION; INTRON; PLANT EVOLUTION; PLANT GENETICS; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

ALGAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EMBRYOPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; GALDIERIA SULPHURARIA; PROKARYOTA; RHODOPHYTA;

EID: 0033179907     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.pcp.a029606     Document Type: Article

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