Why chloroplasts and mitochondria contain genomes

Comparative and Functional Genomics

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 31-36

  Allen, John F ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cell evolution; CORR; Cytoplasmic organelles; Electro transport; Gene expression; Photosynthesis; Redox regulation; Respiration

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN PRECURSOR; RNA;

ARABIDOPSIS; CELL FUNCTION; CELL NUCLEUS; CHLOROPLAST; CYTOSOL; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC REGULATION; HOST CELL; HYPOTHESIS; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PLANT GENETICS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; REVIEW; RNA TRANSLATION; SYMBIONT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0037295044     PISSN: 15316912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cfg.245     Document Type: Review

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