Regular spliceosomal introns are invasive in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii: 15 introns in the recently relocated mitochondrial cox2 and cox3 genes

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 53, Issue 4-5, 2001, Pages 333-339

  Watanabe, Kazuo I ^a   Ohama, Takeshi ^b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KOCHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Exon shuffling; Group II intron; Proto splicing site; Signal peptide

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; PROSTAGLANDIN SYNTHASE; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CLONE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; GENE LOCATION; INTRON; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; RNA SPLICING; SPLICEOSOME;

ALGAE, GREEN; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, BACTERIAL; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, PROTOZOAN; INTRONS; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPLICEOSOMES;

EID: 0034828355     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002390010223     Document Type: Article

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