Parallels in genome evolution in mitochondria and bacterial symbionts

IUBMB Life

Volumn 55, Issue 4-5, 2003, Pages 205-212

  Burger, Gertraud ^a   Lang, B Franz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

A + T content; Codon bias; Endosymbiosis; Gene transfer; Genome evolution; Intracellular bacteria; Mitochondria

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PROTEOME; RIBOSOME RNA; TRANSFER RNA; URACIL DNA GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE;

ANIMAL GENETICS; CELL ORGANELLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; DNA TRANSFER; ENDOSYMBIOSIS; EUBACTERIUM; EUKARYOTE; EUKARYOTE EVOLUTION; FLAGELLATE; FUNGAL GENETICS; GENE LOSS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE TRANSFER; GENOME ANALYSIS; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; INTRACELLULAR TRANSPORT; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MYCOPLASMA; NONHUMAN; PHOTOTROPHIC BACTERIUM; PHYLOGENY; PLANT GENETICS; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTOZOON; REVIEW; RICKETTSIA; SYMBIONT;

ANIMALS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MITOCHONDRIA; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); MYCOPLASMA; NEGIBACTERIA; PHOTOBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; PROTEOBACTERIA; PROTOZOA; RICKETTSIA; UNCULTURED ALPHA PROTEOBACTERIUM;

EID: 0037477435     PISSN: 15216543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1521654031000137380     Document Type: Review

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