Widespread horizontal transfer of mitochondrial genes in flowering plants

Nature

Volumn 424, Issue 6945, 2003, Pages 197-201

  Bergthorsson, Ulfar ^a   Adams, Keith L ^a,b   Thomason, Brendan ^a,c   Palmer, Jeffrey D ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; GENES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MOLECULES;

MITOCHONDRIAL GENES;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

CHIMERIC PROTEIN; RIBOSOME PROTEIN; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PLANT DNA; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

EVOLUTION; FLOWERING; GENE TRANSFER; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PHYLOGENY;

ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; FLOWERING; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC CODE; GENOME; MITOCHONDRIAL GENETICS; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PLANT GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANGIOSPERM; CLASSIFICATION; GENE; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; PROTISTA; VERTEBRATA;

ANGIOSPERMS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DNA, PLANT; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, PLANT; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; RIBOSOMAL PROTEINS;

EID: 0037819441     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01743     Document Type: Article

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