Ancestral chloroplast genome in Mesostigma viride reveals an early branch of green plant evolution

Nature

Volumn 403, Issue 6770, 2000, Pages 649-652

  Lemieux, Claude ^a   Otis, Christian ^a   Turmel, Monique ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGA; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CHLOROPLAST; DNA STRUCTURE; EVOLUTION; FLAGELLATE; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; PHYLOGENY; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ALGAE, GREEN; CHLOROPLASTS; DNA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FLAGELLA; GENOME; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLANTS;

ALGAE; CHARACEAE; CHLOROPHYTA; EMBRYOPHYTA; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); MESOSTIGMA; MESOSTIGMA VIRIDE; STREPTOPHYTA; VIRIDIPLANTAE;

EID: 0034628462     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35001059     Document Type: Article

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