The Complete Mitochondrial DNA Sequence of the Green Alga Pseudendoclonium akinetum (Ulvophyceae) Highlights Distinctive Evolutionary Trends in the Chlorophyta and Suggests a Sister-Group Relationship between the Ulvophyceae and Chlorophyceae

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 922-935

  Pombert, Jean François ^a   Otis, Christian ^a   Lemieux, Claude ^a   Turmel, Monique ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Green algae; Group I introns; Mitochondrial DNA; Pseudendoclonium akinetum; Repeated sequences; Ulvophyceae

Indexed keywords

ALGAL PROTEIN; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; REPETITIVE DNA; SPACER DNA;

ARTICLE; CHLOROPHYCEAE; CLASSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GENOME; GENOME SIZE; GREEN ALGA; INTRON; NEPHROSELMIS OLIVACEA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEDINOMONAS; PHYLOGENY; PRASINOPHYCEAE; PROTOTHECA WICKERHAMII; PSEUDENDOCLONIUM AKINETUM; SCENEDESMUS OBLIQUUS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STREPTOPHYTA; TREBOUXIOPHYCEAE; ULVOPHYCEAE;

ALGAE; ALGAE, GREEN; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME; INTRONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYLOGENY;

ALGAE; CHLOROPHYCEAE; CHLOROPHYTA; EMBRYOPHYTA; NEPHROSELMIS; NEPHROSELMIS OLIVACEA; PEDINOMONAS; PRASINOPHYCEAE; PROTOTHECA; PROTOTHECA WICKERHAMII; PSEUDENDOCLONIUM; PSEUDENDOCLONIUM AKINETUM; SCENEDESMUS; SCENEDESMUS OBLIQUUS; STREPTOPHYTA; TREBOUXIOPHYCEAE; ULVOPHYCEAE;

EID: 1942501620     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msh099     Document Type: Article

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