The cyanobacterial origin and vertical transmission of the plastid tRNA(Leu) group-I intron

Current Genetics

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 12-23

  Besendahl, Anja ^a   Qiu, Yin Long ^b   Lee, Jungho ^b   Palmer, Jeffrey D ^c   Bhattacharya, Debashish ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Group I intron; Phylogeny; Plastids; tRNA(Leu)

Indexed keywords

LEUCINE TRANSFER RNA; PLANT DNA;

ALGA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; CYANOBACTERIUM; DNA SEQUENCE; INTRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT; PLASTID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RED ALGA; RNA GENE; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

ALGAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHARALES; CHLOROPHYTA; CRYPTOPHYTA; CYANOBACTERIA; EMBRYOPHYTA; GLAUCOCYSTOPHYCEAE; HAPTOPHYCEAE; RHODOPHYTA;

EID: 0034104829     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002940050002     Document Type: Article

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