A family of selfish minicircular chromosomes with jumbled chloroplast gene fragments from a dinoflagellate

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 1558-1565

  Zhang, Zhaoduo ^a   Cavalier Smith, T ^a   Green, B R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chloroplast DNA minicircles; Dinoflagellate; Gene fragments; Heterocapsa triquetra; Selfish DNA

Indexed keywords

DNA; RNA 16S; RNA 23S;

ARTICLE; CHLOROPLAST; CHROMOSOME; DNA SEQUENCE; FLAGELLATE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

HETEROCAPSA TRIQUETRA;

EID: 0034910778     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a003942     Document Type: Article

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