Organellar genes. Why do they end up in the nucleus?

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 315-320

  Blanchard, Jeffrey L ^a   Lynch, Michael ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR GENOME RESOURCES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; TRANSFER RNA;

ANIMAL; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL ORGANELLE; GENE TRANSFER; GENOME; HYPOTHESIS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; YEAST;

CELL NUCLEUS; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; ORGANELLES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0034237205     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9525(00)02053-9     Document Type: Review

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