Evolution of dinoflagellate unigenic minicircles and the partially concerted divergence of their putative replicon origins

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 489-500

  Zhang, Zhaoduo ^a   Cavalier Smith, Thomas ^a   Green, Beverley R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chloroplast gene minicircles; Chromosome fragmentation; Concerted evolution; Dinoflagellate

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA;

AMPHIDINIUM CARTERAE; ARTICLE; CHLOROPLAST GENETICS; DINOFLAGELLATE; GENE DELETION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; HETEROCAPSA; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTOCERATIUM RETICULATUM; REPLICON; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMPHIDINIUM; AMPHIDINIUM CARTERAE; AMPHIDINIUM OPERCULATUM; DINOPHYCEAE; HETEROCAPSA; HETEROCAPSA NIEI; HETEROCAPSA PYGMAEA; HETEROCAPSA ROTUNDATA; HETEROCAPSA TRIQUETRA; PROTOCERATIUM; PROTOCERATIUM RETICULATUM; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0036215266     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a004104     Document Type: Article

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