The Highly Reduced and Fragmented Mitochondrial Genome of the Early-branching Dinoflagellate Oxyrrhis marina Shares Characteristics with both Apicomplexan and Dinoflagellate Mitochondrial Genomes

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 372, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 356-368

  Slamovits, Claudio H ^a   Saldarriaga, Juan F ^a   Larocque, Allen ^a   Keeling, Patrick J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

fusion protein; mitochondrial genome; RNA editing; translation initiation; translation termination

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; DINOFLAGELLATE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENOME; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; NONHUMAN; OXYRRHIS MARINA; PLASMODIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA EDITING; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRANSLATION INITIATION; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

ALVEOLATA; APICOMPLEXA; DINOPHYCEAE; OXYRRHIS; OXYRRHIS MARINA; PLASMODIUM (APICOMPLEXA);

EID: 34547938897     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2007.06.085     Document Type: Article

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