The chloroplast genome sequence of Chara vulgaris sheds new light into the closest green algal relatives of land plants

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1324-1338

  Turmel, Monique ^a   Otis, Christian ^a   Lemieux, Claude ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Charophycean green algae; Chloroplast genome evolution; Genome rearrangements; Introns; Phylogenomics; Streptophyta

Indexed keywords

PLANT DNA;

ARTICLE; CHAETOSPHAERIDIUM; CHARA; CHARA VULGARIS; CHLOROKYBUS; CHLOROPLAST; GENE ORDER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENOME; GREEN ALGA; HYPOTHESIS; INTRON; LAND BIOME; MESOSTIGMA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT; PLANT TAXONOMY; STAURASTRUM; ZYGNEMA;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHARA; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA, CHLOROPLAST; EVOLUTION; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLANTS;

ALGAE; CHAETOSPHAERIDIUM; CHARA; CHARA VULGARIS; CHARALES; CHAROPHYCEAE; CHLOROKYBALES; CHLOROKYBUS; CHLOROPHYTA; COLEOCHAETALES; EMBRYOPHYTA; KLEBSORMIDIALES; MESOSTIGMA; MESOSTIGMATALES; STAURASTRUM; STREPTOPHYTA; ZYGNEMA; ZYGNEMATALES;

EID: 33646890404     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msk018     Document Type: Article

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