Comparison of psbK operon organization and group III intron content in chloroplast genomes of 12 Euglenoid species

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 264, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 682-690

  Doetsch, N A ^a,b   Thompson, M D ^a   Favreau, M R ^a   Hallick, R B ^a  

^a University of Arizona ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chloroplast; Euglena; Evolution; Intron; psbK

Indexed keywords

ENDONUCLEASE; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; CHLOROPLAST; CISTRON; EUGLENA; GENE ORDER; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; INTRON; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA CLEAVAGE; RNA SPLICING;

ALGAL PROTEINS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CHLOROPLASTS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EUGLENA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; GENOME; INTRONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; OPERON; PHOTOSYNTHETIC REACTION CENTER COMPLEX PROTEINS; PHOTOSYSTEM II PROTEIN COMPLEX; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, TRANSFER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUGLENA; EUGLENA GRACILIS; EUGLENIDA; PROTISTA;

EID: 0035145616     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380000355     Document Type: Article

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