Plastid-derived single gene minicircles of the dinoflagellate Ceratium horridum are localized in the nucleus

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1318-1322

  Laatsch, T ^a,b   Zauner, S ^b   Stoebe Maier, B ^a   Kowallik, K V ^a   Maier, U G ^b  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dinoflagellates; Minicircles; Peridinin; Plastids

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CERATIUM HORRIDUM; CHLOROPLAST; DINOFLAGELLATE; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR PROBE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLASTID; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; THYLAKOID;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAROTENOIDS; CELL NUCLEUS; DINOFLAGELLIDA; DNA, CIRCULAR; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GENES, PROTOZOAN; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASTIDS;

CERATIUM; CERATIUM HORRIDUM; DINOPHYCEAE; EUKARYOTA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 3042692463     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msh127     Document Type: Article

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