Mutational decay and age of chloroplast and mitochondrial genomes transferred recently to angiosperm nuclear chromosomes

Plant Physiology

Volumn 138, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1723-1733

  Huang, Chun Y ^a   Grünheit, Nicole ^b   Ahmadinejad, Nahal ^b   Timmis, Jeremy N ^a   Martin, William ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLS; CHROMOSOMES; DNA; HOMOPOLYMERIZATION;

EUKARYOTIC CHROMOSOMES; ORGANELLE DNA;

GENES;

CELLS; CHROMOSOMES; GENES; NUCLEIC ACIDS; POLYMERS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; EUKARYOTA; JAPONICA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; ORYZA RUFIPOGON; ORYZA SATIVA;

PLANT DNA; PRIMER DNA;

ANGIOSPERM; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHLOROPLAST; GENETICS; GENOME; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICE;

ANGIOSPERMS; ARABIDOPSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHLOROPLASTS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; ORYZA SATIVA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 27244461126     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.105.060327     Document Type: Article

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