Unique tRNA introns of an enslaved algal cell

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1694-1701

  Kawach, Oliver ^a   Voß, Christine ^a   Wolff, Jonci ^a   Hadfi, Katalin ^a   Maier, Uwe G ^a   Zauner, Stefan ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cyanidioschyzon merolae; Guillardia theta; Nucleomorph; Secondary endosymbiosis; tRNA

Indexed keywords

TRANSFER RNA;

ALGAL CELL CULTURE; ARTICLE; GENOME; INTRON; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PROMOTER REGION; RED ALGA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SPLICING; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

BASE SEQUENCE; CRYPTOPHYTA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA SPLICING; RNA, ALGAL; RNA, TRANSFER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ALGAE; CHLORARACHNIOPHYCEAE; CRYPTOPHYTA; CYANIDIOSCHYZON MEROLAE; EUKARYOTA; GUILLARDIA THETA; RHODOPHYTA;

EID: 25444527146     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msi161     Document Type: Article

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