Identification and transcription of transfer RNA genes in dinoflagellate plastid minicircles

Gene

Volumn 392, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 291-298

  Nelson, Martha J ^a   Dang, Yunkun ^a   Filek, Elena ^a   Zhang, Zhaoduo ^a   Yu, Vionnie Wing Chi ^a   Ishida, Ken ichiro ^a   Green, Beverley R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alga; Chloroplast genome; Dinoflagellate; Heterocapsa triquetra; tRNA

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; CHIMERA; DINOFLAGELLATE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASTID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA TRANSCRIPTION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DINOFLAGELLIDA; DNA, KINETOPLAST; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PLASTIDS; RNA, TRANSFER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ALGAE; DINOPHYCEAE; HETEROCAPSA PYGMAEA; HETEROCAPSA TRIQUETRA;

EID: 33947582592     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2007.01.018     Document Type: Article

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