Basidiomycetous fungus Flammulina velutipes harbors two linear mitochondrial plasmids encoding DNA and RNA polymerases

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 190, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 99-102

  Nakai, Ryohsuke ^a,b   Sen, Kikuo ^a   Kurosawa, Shin Ichi ^a,c   Shibai, Hiroshiro ^a  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c AKITA PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Basidiomycete; DNA polymerase; Flammulina velutipes; Mitochondrial plasmid; Phylogenetic tree; RNA polymerase

Indexed keywords

DNA POLYMERASE; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PLASMID DNA; RNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; BASIDIOMYCETES; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA STRUCTURE; FLAMMULINA VELUTIPES; FUNGAL GENETICS; MITOCHONDRION; NEUROSPORA; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

AGARICALES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLASMIDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 0034284036     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(00)00328-1     Document Type: Article

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