Intracellular spheroid bodies of Rhopalodia gibba have nitrogen-fixing apparatus of cyanobacterial origin

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1477-1481

  Prechtl, Julia ^a   Kneip, Christoph ^a   Lockhart, Peter ^b   Wenderoth, Klaus ^a   Maier, Uwe G ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Endosymbiont; Nitrogen fixation; Rhopalodia gibba; Spheroid body

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA;

ALGAL GENETICS; ARTICLE; CYANOBACTERIUM; DIATOM; GENOME; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; LIGHT EXPOSURE; NIFD GENE; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PREDICTION; PROKARYOTE; RHOPALODIA GIBBA; SPHEROID CELL; SYMBIONT; THYLAKOID;

ALGAL PROTEINS; CYANOBACTERIA; DIATOMS; ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS, CLOSED; GENES, BACTERIAL; NITROGEN FIXATION; ORGANELLES; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENY; THYLAKOIDS;

ALGAE; BACILLARIOPHYTA; CYANOBACTERIA; CYANOTHECE; EUKARYOTA; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; RHOPALODIA; RHOPALODIA GIBBA;

EID: 3242784266     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msh086     Document Type: Article

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