Origin of the plastid in the anomalously pigmented dinoflagellate Gymnodinium mikimotoi (Gymnodiniales, Dinophyta) as inferred from phylogenetic analysis based on the gene encoding the large subunit of form I-type RuBisCO

Phycological Research

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 85-89

  Takishita, Kiyotaka ^a   Nakano, Kouichirou ^a   Uchida, Aritsune ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dinoflagellate; Gymnodinium mikimotoi; Phylogenetic analysis; Plastid; rbcL; RuBisCO; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

19 BUTANOYLOXYFUCOXANTHIN; 19 HEXANOYLOXYFUCOXANTHIN; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; FUCOXANTHIN; GENETIC LINE; PERIDININ; PHYLOGENY; PLASTID; RBCL GENE; RHODOPLAST; RIBOSOMAL RNA; RIBULOSEBISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE;

ALGAE; DINOPHYCEAE; GYMNODINIALES; GYMNODINIUM MIKIMOTOI; HAPTOPHYCEAE; MYXOGASTRIA; RHODOPHYTA;

EID: 0033934124     PISSN: 13220829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1835.2000.00189.x     Document Type: Article

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