Evolution of the chloroplast genome

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 358, Issue 1429, 2003, Pages 99-107

  Howe, Christopher J ^a   Barbrook, Adrian C ^a   Koumandou, V Lila ^a   Nisbet, R Ellen R ^a   Symington, Hamish A ^a   Wightman, Tom F ^a   Fray, R ^b   Leaver, C J ^c   Walker, J E ^d   Gray, J C ^a   Douglas, A E ^e   Cavalier Smith, T ^c   Allen, J F ^f   Hermann, R G ^g   Blankenship, R E ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^f LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^h NONE

Author keywords

Dinoflagellate; Integron; Nucleotide composition; Plastid; Transposition

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; GENOME; PLASTID;

ALGAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; DINOPHYCEAE; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0037471714     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2002.1176     Document Type: Conference Paper

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