A mitochondrial ancestry of the hydrogenosomes of nyctotherus ovalis [2]

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 202-206

  Van Hoek, Angela H A M ^a,e   Akhmanova, Anna S ^a,f   Huynen, Martijn A ^b,c,d   Hackstein, Johannes H P ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^c MAX DELBRÜCK CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Germany)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^f ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anaerobic ciliates; Evolution; Hydrogenosomes; Mitochondria; Ribosomal small subunit RNA (SSU rRNA)

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

CILIATE; COCKROACH; EVOLUTION; GENOME; LETTER; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; RNA GENE; RNA SEQUENCE; SYMBIOSIS;

NYCTOTHERUS OVALIS;

EID: 0033958973     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a026234     Document Type: Letter

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