The plastid chromosome of Atropa belladonna and its comparison with that of Nicotiana tabacum: The role of RNA editing in generating divergence in the process of plant speciation

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1602-1612

  Schmitz Linneweber, Christian ^a   Regel, Ralph ^a   Du, Tung Gia ^a   Hupfer, Holger ^a   Herrmann, Reinhold G ^a   Maier, Rainer M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atropa belladonna; Nucleus plastid incompatibility; Plastid chromosome; Sequence analysis; Speciation

Indexed keywords

BELLADONNA ALKALOID; PLANT RNA;

ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMOSOME; CYBRID; GENE ISOLATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC INCOMPATIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; INTRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT CELL; PLANT GENETICS; PLASTID; RNA EDITING; RNA TRANSLATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TOBACCO; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ATROPA BELLADONNA; CHROMOSOME MAP; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA REPLICATION ORIGIN; GENE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; OPEN READING FRAME; PLANT CHROMOSOME; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ATROPA; ATROPA BELLADONNA; NICOTIANA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; SOLANUM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ATROPA BELLADONNA; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, PLANT; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PLASTIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REPLICATION ORIGIN; RNA EDITING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TOBACCO;

EID: 0036726451     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a004222     Document Type: Article

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