Origins of the secondary plastids of Euglenophyta and Chlorarachniophyta as revealed by an analysis of the plastid-targeting, nuclear-encoded gene psbO

Journal of Phycology

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1302-1309

  Takahashi, Fumio ^a,b   Okabe, Yugo ^b   Nakada, Takashi ^b   Sekimoto, Hiroyuki ^c   Ito, Motomi ^b   Kataoka, Hironao ^a   Nozaki, Hisayoshi ^b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c JAPAN WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alanine X alanine motif; Chlorarachniophyta; Euglenophyta; Phylogeny; Plastids; psbO; Secondary endosymbiosis; Thylakoid targeting domain; Transit peptide

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; CHLORARACHNIOPHYCEAE; CHLOROPHYCEAE; CHLOROPHYTA; EUGLENIDA; EUKARYOTA; MESOSTIGMA; PRASINOPHYCEAE; STREPTOPHYTA; TETRASELMIS; ULVOPHYCEAE; VIRIDIPLANTAE;

EID: 36849080234     PISSN: 00223646     EISSN: 15298817     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1529-8817.2007.00411.x     Document Type: Article

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