The chloroplast trnT-trnF region in the seed plant lineage Gnetales

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 425-436

  Won, Hyosig ^a,c   Renner, Susanne S ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN   (United States)

^c Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gnetales; Gymnosperms; Palindromic sequences; trnL intron; trnL trnF intergenic spacer; trnT trnL intergenic spacer

Indexed keywords

PALINDROMIC DNA; PLANT DNA; SPACER DNA; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHLOROPLAST; DNA STRUCTURE; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC LINE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GYMNOSPERM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PLANT GENETICS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, CHLOROPLAST; DNA, INTERGENIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, PLANT; GNETOPHYTA; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, TRANSFER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EMBRYOPHYTA; EPHEDRA; GNETALES; GNETUM; GYMNOSPERMAE; SPERMATOPHYTA; WELWITSCHIA;

EID: 26244463341     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00239-004-0240-3     Document Type: Article

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