Complete DNA sequences of the mitochondrial genomes of the pathogenic yeasts Candida orthopsilosis and Candida metapsilosis: Insight into the evolution of linear DNA genomes from mitochondrial telomere mutants

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 2472-2481

  Kosa, Peter ^a   Valach, Matus ^a   Tomaska, Lubomir ^a   Wolfe, Kenneth H ^b   Nosek, Jozef ^a  

^a Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; RIBOSOME RNA; TRANSFER RNA; CIRCULAR DNA; MESSENGER RNA; MITOCHONDRIAL MESSENGER RNA; RNA; RNA, MITOCHONDRIAL;

ARTICLE; CANDIDA; CANDIDA METAPSILOSIS; CANDIDA ORTHOPSILOSIS; CANDIDA PARAPSILOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGAL GENETICS; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENE MAPPING; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOME SIZE; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; INTRON; MITOCHONDRIAL GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TELOMERE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENE ORDER; GENETICS; GENOME; METABOLISM; MITOCHONDRION; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; RNA PROCESSING;

CANDIDA METAPSILOSIS; CANDIDA ORTHOPSILOSIS;

BASE SEQUENCE; CANDIDA; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, CIRCULAR; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE ORDER; GENOME, FUNGAL; MITOCHONDRIA; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; RNA; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, TRANSFER; TELOMERE;

EID: 33646710847     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkl327     Document Type: Article

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