Recurrent invasion of mitochondrial group II introns in specimens of Pylaiella littoralis (brown alga), collected worldwide

Current Genetics

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 207-216

  Ikuta, Kyosuke ^a   Kawai, Hiroshi ^b   Müller, Dieter G ^c   Ohama, Takeshi ^d  

^a OSAKA KYOIKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^d KOCHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Geographic polymorphism; Group II intron; Introninvasion; Mitochondria; Pylaiella littoralis; Reverse transcription

Indexed keywords

CYCLOOXYGENASE 1; PLANT RNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; BROWN ALGA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRANCE; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; INTRON; JAPAN; MITOCHONDRIAL GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES HABITAT;

ALGAE, BROWN; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, MITOCHONDRIAL; GEOGRAPHY; INTRONS; MITOCHONDRIA; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

PHAEOPHYCEAE; PYLAIELLA LITTORALIS;

EID: 41149116105     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00294-008-0178-x     Document Type: Article

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