The sporadic occurrence of a group I intron-like element in the mtDNA rnl gene of Ophiostoma novo-ulmi subsp. americana

Mycological Research

Volumn 112, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 564-582

  Sethuraman, Jyothi ^a   Okoli, Chukwuemeka V ^a   Majer, Anna ^a   Corkery, Tamara L C ^a   Hausner, Georg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dutch elm disease; Group I introns; Homing endonucleases; mtDNA; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA; FUNGAL PROTEIN; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

CYTOCHROME; DECIDUOUS TREE; FUNGAL DISEASE; GENE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; BASE PAIRING; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; INTRON; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; PLANT DISEASE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASCOMYCOTA; BASE PAIRING; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; INTRONS; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYLOGENY; PLANT DISEASES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; ULMUS;

CANADA; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTH AMERICA;

ANIMALIA; OPHIOSTOMA NOVO-ULMI SUBSP. AMERICANA; ULMUS;

EID: 42649102999     PISSN: 09537562     EISSN: 14698102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mycres.2007.11.017     Document Type: Article

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