Phylogenetic analyses suggest lateral gene transfer from the mitochondrion to the apicoplast

Gene

Volumn 285, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 109-118

  Oborník, Miroslav ^a,b   Van De Peer, Yves ^c   Hypša, Václav ^a,b   Frickey, Tancred ^e   Šlapeta, Jan R ^a,d   Meyer, Axel ^e   Lukeš, Julius ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^c DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY AND PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES   (Czech Republic)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Apicoplast; Gene transfer; Hybrid genome; Mitochondrion; Plastid; Ribosomal protein

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; APICOMPLEXA; APICOPLAST; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC STABILITY; HYBRID GENE; MITOCHONDRIAL GENETICS; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLASTID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DNA, PROTOZOAN; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, PROTOZOAN; ORGANELLES; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASTIDS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RIBOSOMAL PROTEINS; TOXOPLASMA;

PROTOZOA;

EID: 0037138397     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(02)00427-4     Document Type: Article

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