Linear mitochondrial plasmids of F. oxysporum are novel, telomere-like retroelements

Molecular Cell

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 229-238

  Walthert, Tobias C ^a,b   Kennell, John C ^a  

^a SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FUNGAL DNA; RETROELEMENT; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; RNA; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; TRYPTOPHAN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CRUCIFERA; FUSARIUM OXYSPORUM; GENE REPLICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; KARYOTYPE EVOLUTION; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TELOMERE; VEGETABLE;

EID: 0033179990     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1097-2765(00)80370-6     Document Type: Article

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