The complete mitochondrial DNA sequences of Nephroselmis olivacea and Pedinomonas minor: Two radically different evolutionary patterns within green algae

Plant Cell

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1717-1729

  Turmel, Monique ^a   Lemieux, Claude ^a   Burger, Gertraud ^b   Lang, B Franz ^b   Otis, Christian ^a   Plante, Isabelle ^b   Gray, Michael W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; ANIMALIA; CHARALES; CHLAMYDOMONAS; CHLOROPHYCEAE; CHLOROPHYTA; EMBRYOPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; NEPHROSELMIS; NEPHROSELMIS OLIVACEA; PEDINOMONAS; PEDINOMONAS MINOR; PRASINOPHYCEAE; PROTOTHECA WICKERHAMII; STREPTOPHYTA; TREBOUXIOPHYCEAE; ULVOPHYCEAE;

EID: 0033197514     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.11.9.1717     Document Type: Article

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