The Chlamydomonas reinhardtii plastid chromosome: Islands of genes in a sea of repeats

Plant Cell

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 2659-2679

  Maul, Jude E ^a   Lilly, Jason W ^a   Cui, Liying ^a   DePamphilis, Claude W ^a   Miller, Webb ^a   Harris, Elizabeth H ^a   Stern, David B ^a  

^a United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service and Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; DNA; ENZYMES; GENES; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; RNA;

CHLOROPLASTS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

ALGAE; CHLAMYDOMONAS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CHLORELLA VULGARIS; CHLOROPHYTA; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0036845754     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.006155     Document Type: Article

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