Molecular phylogeny and evolution of the plastid and nuclear encoded cbbX genes in the unicellular red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae

Genes and Genetic Systems

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 127-133

  Fujita, Kiyohito ^a   Ehira, Shigeki ^a   Tanaka, Kan ^b   Asai, Kei ^a   Ohta, Niji ^a  

^a SAITAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

C. merolae; CbbX; Molecular phylogeny

Indexed keywords

RIBULOSEBISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CBBX GENE; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PHYLOGENY; PLASTID; PROTEOBACTERIA; RED ALGA;

ALGAE, RED; ALGAL PROTEINS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CELL NUCLEUS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLASTIDS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ALGAE; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CYANIDIOSCHYZON MEROLAE; GUILLARDIA THETA; PROTEOBACTERIA; RHODOPHYTA;

EID: 45749088209     PISSN: 13417568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1266/ggs.83.127     Document Type: Article

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