Minimal plastid genome evolution in the Paulinella endosymbiont

Current Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 17, 2006, Pages

  Yoon, Hwan Su ^a   Reyes Prieto, Adrian ^a   Melkonian, Michael ^b   Bhattacharya, Debashish ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BACTERIAL GENOME; CYANOBACTERIUM; EVOLUTION; GENE ORDER; GENETICS; GENOME; LETTER; PLASTID; PROTOZOON; SYMBIOSIS; SYNECHOCOCCUS; SYNTENY;

ANIMALS; CYANOBACTERIA; EVOLUTION; GENE ORDER; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; PLASTIDS; PROTOZOA; SYMBIOSIS; SYNECHOCOCCUS; SYNTENY;

PAULINELLA;

EID: 33750627783     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2006.08.018     Document Type: Letter

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