Sexuality and uniparental inheritance of chloroplast DNA in the isogamous green alga Ulva compressa (Ulvophyceae)

Journal of Phycology

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 691-702

  Kagami, Yayoi ^a   Mogi, Yuko ^a   Arai, Tatsushi ^a   Yamamoto, Manami ^b   Kuwano, Kazuyoshi ^b   Kawano, Shigeyuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chloroplast DNA; Chloroplast genome; DNA marker; Heterothallic; Isogamy; Sexuality; Ulva compressa; Uniparental inheritance

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; ULVA; ULVA COMPRESSA; ULVOPHYCEAE;

EID: 44349145960     PISSN: 00223646     EISSN: 15298817     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1529-8817.2008.00527.x     Document Type: Article

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