An exceptional horizontal gene transfer in plastids: Gene replacement by a distant bacterial paralog and evidence that haptophyte and cryptophyte plastids are sisters

BMC Biology

Volumn 4, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Rice, Danny W ^a   Palmer, Jeffrey D ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDOPEPTIDASE CLP; RIBULOSEBISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE; SPACER DNA;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; EVENING PRIMROSE; GENE CONVERSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; LONG BRANCH ATTRACTION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARALOGY; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PLANT GENETICS; PLASTID; RED ALGA; SISTER GROUP; TAXON; BACTERIA; GENETICS; PLANT; PLANT GENE; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CRYPTOPHYTA; OENOTHERA ELATA; RHODOPHYTA;

BACTERIA; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, PLANT; OENOTHERA; PLANTS; PLASTIDS; RHODOPHYTA; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 33748895571     PISSN: 17417007     EISSN: 17417007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7007-4-31     Document Type: Article

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