Genetic diversity in cyanobacterial symbionts of thalloid bryophytes

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1013-1021

  Rikkinen, Jouko ^a   Virtanen, Viivi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Blasia pusilla; Bryophyte; Cavicularia densa; Nostoc; Specificity; Symbiosis; TRNALeu(UAA) intron

Indexed keywords

ANTHOCEROTOPHYTA; BLASIA; BLASIA PUSILLA; BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; CAVICULARIA; CAVICULARIA DENSA; CYANOBACTERIA; CYCADOPSIDA; MARCHANTIOPHYTA; NOSTOC; NOSTOC PUNCTIFORME PCC 73102;

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL RNA; LEUCINE TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; CYANOBACTERIUM; CYTOLOGY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; INTRON; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LIVERWORT; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NOSTOC; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SYMBIOSIS; TANDEM REPEAT;

BASE SEQUENCE; CYANOBACTERIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; HEPATOPHYTA; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NOSTOC; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, TRANSFER, LEU; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYMBIOSIS; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES;

EID: 43049175245     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: 14602431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/ern003     Document Type: Conference Paper

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