Optional mitochondrial introns and evidence for a homing-endonuclease gene in the mtDNA rnl gene in Ophiostoma ulmi s. lat.

Mycological Research

Volumn 109, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1112-1126

  Gibb, Ewan A ^a   Hausner, Georg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDONUCLEASE; FUNGAL DNA; FUNGAL PROTEIN; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

GENETIC ANALYSIS; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; ELM; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; INTRON; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PATHOGENICITY; PLANT DISEASE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM;

ASCOMYCOTA; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ENDONUCLEASES; FUNGAL PROTEINS; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OPEN READING FRAMES; PLANT DISEASES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; ULMUS;

ANIMALIA; OPHIOSTOMA HIMAL-ULMI; OPHIOSTOMA ULMI;

EID: 26244448854     PISSN: 09537562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S095375620500376X     Document Type: Article

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