Direct evidence for redundant segmental replacement between multiple 18S rRNA genes in a single Prototheca strain

Microbiology

Volumn 153, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 3879-3893

  Ueno, Ryohei ^a,c   Huss, Volker A R ^b   Urano, Naoto ^a   Watabe, Shugo ^c  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF MARINE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 18S; SMALL SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL RNA;

ARTICLE; CHLORELLA; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOTYPE; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOTHECA WICKERHAMII;

BASE SEQUENCE; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, RRNA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTOTHECA; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EUKARYOTA; LANGAT VIRUS; PROKARYOTA; PROTOTHECA; PROTOTHECA WICKERHAMII;

EID: 36448986008     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.2007/009365-0     Document Type: Article

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