The mitochondrial genome of Chara vulgaris: Insights into the mitochondrial DNA architecture of the last common ancestor of green algae and land plants

Plant Cell

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1888-1903

  Turmel, Monique ^a   Otis, Christian ^a   Lemieux, Claude ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; MICROORGANISMS;

PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS;

GENES;

ALGAE; BRYOPHYTES; CHAETOSPHAERIDIUM; CHAETOSPHAERIDIUM GLOBOSUM; CHARA; CHARA VULGARIS; CHARALES; CHLOROPHYTA; COLEOCHAETALES; EMBRYOPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; MARCHANTIA; MARCHANTIA POLYMORPHA; MESOSTIGMA VIRIDE; VIRIDIPLANTAE;

EID: 0042922459     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.013169     Document Type: Article

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