Evolutionary origin of a plant mitochondrial group II intron from a reverse transcriptase/maturase-encoding ancestor

Journal of Plant Research

Volumn 119, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 363-371

  Ahlert, Daniela ^a   Piepenburg, Katrin ^b   Kudla, Jörg ^a   Bock, Ralph ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PLANT PHYSIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

cox2; Evolution; Group II intron; Maturase; Mitochondrion; Splicing

Indexed keywords

CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GINKGO BILOBA; INTRON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RNA EDITING; RNA SPLICING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GINKGO BILOBA; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA EDITING; RNA SPLICING; RNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE;

GINKGO BILOBA; GYMNOSPERMAE; SPERMATOPHYTA;

EID: 33746440612     PISSN: 09189440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10265-006-0284-0     Document Type: Article

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