Evolution of Pleopsidium (Lichenized Ascomycota) S943 group I introns and the phylogeography of an intron-encoded putative homing endonuclease

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 285-298

  Reeb, Valérie ^a   Haugen, Peik ^b   Bhattacharya, Debashish ^c   Lutzoni, François ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ancestral state reconstruction; Group I intron mobility; Homing endonuclease gene (HEG); Lichen forming fungus Pleopsidium; Phylogeography; Ribosomal RNA

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ENDONUCLEASE; NUCLEAR RNA;

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTION; INTRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PSEUDOGENE;

AFRICA; ASCOMYCOTA; ASIA; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ENDONUCLEASES; EUROPE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NORTH AMERICA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ASCOMYCOTA; FUNGI; PLEOPSIDIUM;

EID: 33847669230     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00239-005-0179-z     Document Type: Article

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