Plastid genome sequence of the cryptophyte alga Rhodomonas salina CCMP1319: Lateral transfer of putative DNA replication machinery and a test of chromist plastid phylogeny

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1832-1842

  Khan, Hameed ^a   Parks, Natalie ^a   Kozera, Catherine ^b   Curtis, Bruce A ^b   Parsons, Byron J ^b   Bowman, Sharen ^b   Archibald, John M ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Genome Atlantic Canada   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chromalveolates; Chromists; Cryptophytes; Plastid; Secondary endosymbiosis

Indexed keywords

DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE GAMMA;

ALGA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPLICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; GUILLARDIA THETA; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; INTRON; MONOPHYLY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PLASTID; PSEUDOGENE; RHODOMONAS SALINA;

BACTERIA; CRYPTOPHYTA; DNA REPLICATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, PLANT; GENOME; PHYLOGENY; PLASTIDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYMBIOSIS;

ALGAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHROMALVEOLATA; CHROMISTA; CRYPTOPHYTA; DINOPHYCEAE; EUKARYOTA; GUILLARDIA THETA; HAPTOPHYCEAE; LANGAT VIRUS; RHODOMONAS (CRYPTOPHYTA); RHODOMONAS SALINA; RHODOPHYTA; STRAMENOPILES;

EID: 34547781748     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msm101     Document Type: Article

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