Evolutionary genomics: Is Buchnera a bacterium or an organelle?

Current Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 23, 2000, Pages

  Andersson, Jan O ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL GENOME; CELL ORGANELLE; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENE SEQUENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BUCHNERA; EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0034735954     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(00)00816-2     Document Type: Review

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