The complete mitochondrial genome of the vascular wilt fungus Verticillium dahliae: A novel gene order for Verticillium and a diagnostic tool for species identification

Current Genetics

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 125-136

  Pantou, Malena P ^a   Kouvelis, Vassili N ^a   Typas, Milton A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Gene order; Mt intergenic regions; MtDNA phylogenetic analysis; Phyllachorales; Verticillium dahliae; Verticillium longisporum

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PRIMER RNA; RIBOSOME RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FUNGUS; GENE LOCATION; GENE ORDER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TRANSLOCATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENUS; INTRON; MITOCHONDRIAL GENETICS; NEW GENUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; ORDO; OXIDATIVE PHOSPHORYLATION; PEZIZOMYCOTINA; PHYLLACHORALES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SORDARIALES; SORDARIOMYCETES; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; TAXONOMY; VERTICILLIUM DAHLIAE;

BASE SEQUENCE; BAYES THEOREM; CODON; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENE ORDER; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SYNTENY; VERTICILLIUM;

ASCOMYCOTA; FUNGI; HYPOCREALES; PEZIZOMYCOTINA; PHYLLACHORALES; SORDARIALES; SORDARIOMYCETES; VERTICILLIUM (HYPOCREALES); VERTICILLIUM (PHYLLACHORALES); VERTICILLIUM ALBO-ATRUM; VERTICILLIUM DAHLIAE;

EID: 33745946040     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00294-006-0079-9     Document Type: Article

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