Lateral transfer of introns in the cryptophyte plastid genome

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 3043-3053

  Khan, Hameed ^a   Archibald, John M ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGAL RNA;

ALGAL GENETICS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOPHYTA; DNA TRANSPOSITION; GENE LOCATION; GENOME; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; INTRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TAXONOMIC RANK;

ALGAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CRYPTOPHYTA; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOME, PLASTID; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHYLOGENY; RNA SPLICING; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ALGAE; CRYPTOPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; LANGAT VIRUS; RHODOMONAS SALINA;

EID: 44349105971     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkn095     Document Type: Article

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