Recent horizontal intron transfer to a chloroplast genome

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 803-810

  Sheveleva, Elena V ^a   Hallick, Richard B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ASSAY; CALOTHRIX; CHLOROPLAST; CYANOBACTERIUM; EUGLENA; EUGLENA MYXOCYLINDRACEA; GENE INTERACTION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENOME; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; IN VITRO STUDY; INTRON; MITOCHONDRION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLASTID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RNA SPLICING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHLOROPLASTS; CYANOBACTERIA; EUGLENA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GENOME; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOTOSYSTEM II PROTEIN COMPLEX; PHYLOGENY; RNA SPLICING; RNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; TIME FACTORS;

CALOTHRIX; CYANOBACTERIA; EUGLENA; EUGLENA MYXOCYLINDRACEA; PORPHYRA; PORPHYRA PURPUREA;

EID: 1342263796     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkh225     Document Type: Article

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