The complete chloroplast DNA sequences of the charophycean green algae Staurastrum and Zygnema reveal that the chloroplast genome underwent extensive changes during the evolution of the Zygnematales

BMC Biology

Volumn 3, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Turmel, Monique ^a   Otis, Christian ^a   Lemieux, Claude ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CHLOROPLAST DNA; RIBOSOME RNA; SPACER DNA; DNA;

ALGAL GENETICS; ARTICLE; CHAROPHYTA; CHLOROPLAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE INSERTION; GENE ORDER; GENE STRUCTURE; INTRON; INVERTED REPEAT; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARTICLE SIZE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TANDEM REPEAT; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; CHROMOSOME MAP; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; GENOME; GREEN ALGA; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; PHYLOGENY;

ALGAE; CHAETOSPHAERIDIUM; CHAETOSPHAERIDIUM GLOBOSUM; CHARALES; CHLOROKYBALES; CHLOROPHYTA; COLEOCHAETALES; EMBRYOPHYTA; KLEBSORMIDIALES; MESOSTIGMA VIRIDE; MESOSTIGMATALES; STAURASTRUM; STAURASTRUM PUNCTULATUM; STREPTOPHYTA; ZYGNEMA; ZYGNEMA CIRCUMCARINATUM; ZYGNEMATALES;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHLOROPHYTA; CHLOROPLASTS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME; INTRONS; PHYLOGENY; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 27744492579     PISSN: 17417007     EISSN: 17417007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7007-3-22     Document Type: Article

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