Phylogenetic analysis of diatom coxI genes and implications of a fluctuating GC content on mitochondrial genetic code evolution

Current Genetics

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 29-33

  Ehara, Megumi ^a,c   Inagaki, Yuji ^b,d   Watanabe, Kazuo I ^a   Ohama, Takeshi ^b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JT Biohistory Research Hall ^*  (Japan)

^c KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bacillariophyta; Cytochrome c oxidase; GC bias; Subunit I; UGA codon

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; DNA BASE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PLANT DNA;

ARTICLE; DIATOM; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME SUBUNIT; EVOLUTION; GENETIC CODE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AULACOSEIRA AMBIGUA; BACILLARIOPHYTA; COSCINODISCOPHYCEAE; EUSTIGMATOPHYCEAE; HAPTOPHYCEAE; MELOSIRA; PHAEOPHYCEAE; PROTOZOA; RHIZOSOLENIA SETIGERA; SKELETONEMA COSTATUM; THALASSIOSIRA; THALASSIOSIRA NORDENSKIOLDII; XANTHOPHYCEAE;

EID: 0034020911     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002940050004     Document Type: Article

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