Mitochondrial genome dynamics in plants and animals: Convergent gene fusions of a MutS homologue

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 165-173

  Abdelnoor, Ricardo V ^a,c   Christensen, Alan C ^b   Mohammed, Saleem ^a   Munoz Castillo, Bryan ^a   Moriyama, Hideaki ^a   Mackenzie, Sally A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

^c EMBRAPA CERRADOS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Corals; Endonuclease; Gynodioecy; MSH1; Substoichiometric shifting

Indexed keywords

ENDONUCLEASE; PROTEIN MUTS;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; CORAL; GENE FUNCTION; GENE FUSION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; MALE STERILITY; MISMATCH REPAIR; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA REPAIR ENZYMES; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ENDONUCLEASES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE FUSION; MITOCHONDRIA; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTS DNA MISMATCH-BINDING PROTEIN; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ALCYONACEA; ANIMALIA; ANTHOZOA; EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 33746467893     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00239-005-0226-9     Document Type: Article

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