Mitochondrial genome evolution and the origin of eukaryotes

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 33, Issue , 1999, Pages 351-397

  Lang, B Franz ^a   Gray, Michael W ^b   Burger, Gertraud ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Proteobacteria; Archezoa; Gene order; Genomics; Phylogeny; Protists

Indexed keywords

EUKARYOTE; GENE ORDER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FUNGI; MITOCHONDRIA; PHYLOGENY;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARCHEZOA; EUKARYOTA; PROTEOBACTERIA; PROTISTA; UNCULTURED ALPHA PROTEOBACTERIUM;

EID: 0033367329     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.genet.33.1.351     Document Type: Review

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