The chloroplast genome sequence of the green alga Pseudendoclonium akinetum (Ulvophyceae) reveals unusual structural features and new insights into the branching order of chlorophyte lineages

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1903-1918

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

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chloroplast genome evolution; Green algae; Group I introns; Pseudendoclonium akinetum; Repeated sequences; Ulvophyceae

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPLAST DNA; ENDONUCLEASE; PROTEIN; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; CELL ORGANELLE; CHLAMYDOMONAS; CHLORELLA; CHLOROPLAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE INSERTION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENOME; GENOME ANALYSIS; GREEN ALGA; INTRON; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PHYLOGENY; PSEUDENDOCLONIUM AKINETUM; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ALGAE, GREEN; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA, CHLOROPLAST; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE ORDER; GENOME, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHYLOGENY; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

ALGAE; CHLAMYDOMONAS; CHLORELLA (CHLORELLALES); CHLORELLA (PRASIOLALES); CHLORELLA (UNCLASSIFIED CHLOROPHYCEAE); CHLORELLA (UNCLASSIFIED TREBOUXIOPHYCEAE); CHLOROPHYCEAE; CHLOROPHYTA; NEPHROSELMIS; PRASINOPHYCEAE; PSEUDENDOCLONIUM; PSEUDENDOCLONIUM AKINETUM; STREPTOPHYTA; TREBOUXIOPHYCEAE; ULVOPHYCEAE; VIRIDIPLANTAE;

EID: 23944523620     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msi182     Document Type: Article

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