Mitochondrial genome sequence evolution in chlamydomonas

Genetics

Volumn 175, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 819-826

  Popescu, Cristina E ^a   Lee, Robert W ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; RIBOSOME RNA; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN; NUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; CHLAMYDOMONAS; CHLAMYDOMONAS INCERTA; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; EVOLUTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MITOCHONDRIAL GENETICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; ANIMAL; CELL NUCLEUS; CODON; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; GENE; GENETICS; GENOME; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION;

CHLAMYDOMONAS; CHLAMYDOMONAS INCERTA; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CHLOROPHYTA;

ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHLAMYDOMONAS; CODON; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDES;

EID: 34247871378     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.106.063156     Document Type: Article

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