The origin and establishment of the plastid in algae and plants

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 41, Issue , 2007, Pages 147-168

  Reyes Prieto, Adrian ^a   Weber, Andreas P M ^b   Bhattacharya, Debashish ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cyanobacterium; Endosymbiosis; Endosymbiotic gene transfer; Organelle; Protein import; Solute transporter

Indexed keywords

ALGA; GENE TRANSFER; PLANT; PLASMID; REVIEW; SYMBIOSIS; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ALGAE; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; PLANTS; PLASMIDS; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 40049091300     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.genet.41.110306.130134     Document Type: Review

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