Comparative analysis of dinoflagellate chloroplast genomes reveals rRNA and tRNA genes

BMC Genomics

Volumn 7, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Barbrook, Adrian C ^a   Santucci, Nicole ^b   Plenderleith, Lindsey J ^a   Hiller, Roger G ^c   Howe, Christopher J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b CHILDREN'S MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^c MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

AMPHIDINIUM CARTERAE; AMPHIDINIUM OPERCULATUM; ARTICLE; CHLOROPLAST; CHLOROPLAST GENETICS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DINOFLAGELLATE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; HETEROCAPSA TRIQUETRA; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; RNA SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHLOROPLASTS; DINOFLAGELLIDA; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, PROTOZOAN; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; RNA, TRANSFER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

AMPHIDINIUM CARTERAE; AMPHIDINIUM OPERCULATUM; DINOPHYCEAE;

EID: 33845320124     PISSN: 14712164     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-7-297     Document Type: Article

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