The complete mitochondrial DNA sequence of Mesostigma viride identifies this green alga as the earliest green plant divergence and predicts a highly compact mitochondrial genome in the ancestor of all green plants

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 24-38

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

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Green algae; Group I introns; Group II introns; Mesostigma viride; Mitochondrial DNA; Trans splicing

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PROTEIN COX2; PROTEIN NAD3; PROTEIN RPL14; PROTEIN RPS1; PROTEIN SDH3; PROTEIN TRNI; PROTEIN TRNL; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHLOROPLAST; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; GREEN ALGA; INTRON; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ALGAE; CHARACEAE; CHARALES; CHLOROPHYTA; EMBRYOPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; INSERTION SEQUENCES; MESOSTIGMA; MESOSTIGMA VIRIDE; PRASINOPHYCEAE; STREPTOPHYTA; VIRIDIPLANTAE;

EID: 0036135441     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a003979     Document Type: Article

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