Dinoflagellates: a mitochondrial genome all at sea

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 328-335

  Nash, Edmund A ^a   Nisbet, R Ellen R ^a   Barbrook, Adrian C ^a   Howe, Christopher J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGA; DINOFLAGELLATE; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA GENE; RNA SPLICING;

ANIMALS; DINOFLAGELLIDA; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; OPEN READING FRAMES; RNA;

ALGAE; DINOPHYCEAE;

EID: 45449100518     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2008.04.001     Document Type: Review

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