Mosaic origin of the heme biosynthesis pathway in photosynthetic eukaryotes

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 2343-2353

  Oborník, Miroslav ^a,b,c   Green, Beverley R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Algae; Chloroplasts; Evogenomics; Heme biosynthetic pathway

Indexed keywords

FERROCHELATASE; GLUTAMATE TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; HEME;

APICOMPLEXA; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL LINEAGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIATOM; ENDOSYMBIOSIS; EUKARYOTE; FUNGUS; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENOME ANALYSIS; GREEN ALGA; MITOCHONDRION; MOSAICISM; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENY; PLASTID; RED ALGA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYMBIONT;

ALGAE, GREEN; ALGAE, RED; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; DIATOMS; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; HEME; MODELS, GENETIC; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENY; PLASTIDS; SYMBIOSIS;

ALGAE; ANIMALIA; APICOMPLEXA; BACILLARIOPHYTA; CHLOROPHYTA; CYANIDIOSCHYZON MEROLAE; CYANOBACTERIA; EMBRYOPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; PHYTOPHTHORA RAMORUM; PHYTOPHTHORA SOJAE; PLASMODIUM (APICOMPLEXA); PROTEOBACTERIA; RHODOPHYTA; STRAMENOPILES; THALASSIOSIRA PSEUDONANA; TOXOPLASMA;

EID: 27844552845     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msi230     Document Type: Article

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