Inheritance pattern of chloroplast DNA is correlated with gamete types based on sex-specific arrangement of the cell fusion site in Caulerpa (Ulvophyceae, Chlorophyta)

Phycological Research

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 47-57

  Miyamura, Shinichi ^a   Nagumo, Tamotsu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b NIPPON DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Caulerpa; Cell fusion; Chloroplast DNA; Fertilization; Field emission scanning electron microscopy; Gamete; Maternal inheritance; Sex

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPLAST; DNA; FERTILIZATION (REPRODUCTION); GAMETE; HERITABILITY; SEAWEED;

BRYOPSIS MAXIMA; CAULERPA; CAULERPA BRACHYPUS; CAULERPA OKAMURAE; CAULERPA RACEMOSA; CAULERPA SERRULATA; CAULERPALES; CHLAMYDOMONAS; CHLOROPHYTA; ULVOPHYCEAE;

EID: 33846916862     PISSN: 13220829     EISSN: 14401835     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1835.2006.00444.x     Document Type: Article

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