The complete chloroplast DNA sequence of the green alga Oltmannsiellopsis viridis reveals a distinctive quadripartite architecture in the chloroplast genome of early diverging ulvophytes

BMC Biology

Volumn 4, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Pombert, Jean Francois ^a   Lemieux, Claude ^a   Turmel, Monique ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPLAST DNA; RIBOSOME RNA; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; CHLORELLA; CHLOROPLAST GENETICS; COMPARATIVE GENE MAPPING; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE ORDER; GENE STRUCTURE; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GREEN ALGA; INTRON; INVERTED REPEAT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PHYLUM; PROGENOTE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SISTER GROUP; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHLOROPLAST; CHROMOSOME MAP; EUKARYOTE; GENETICS; GENOME; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; PLANT GENOME; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

CHLORELLA (CHLORELLALES); CHLORELLA (PRASIOLALES); CHLORELLA (UNCLASSIFIED CHLOROPHYCEAE); CHLORELLA (UNCLASSIFIED TREBOUXIOPHYCEAE); CHLOROPHYCEAE; CHLOROPHYTA; OLTMANNSIELLOPSIS; OLTMANNSIELLOPSIS VIRIDIS; PRASINOPHYCEAE; PSEUDENDOCLONIUM; TREBOUXIOPHYCEAE; ULVOPHYCEAE;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHLOROPHYTA; CHLOROPLASTS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA; DNA, CHLOROPLAST; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EUKARYOTA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE ORDER; GENOME; GENOME, PLANT; INTRONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYLOGENY; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33644938217     PISSN: 17417007     EISSN: 17417007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7007-4-3     Document Type: Article

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