Frequent, phylogenetically local horizontal transfer of the cox1 group I intron in flowering plant mitochondria

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1762-1777

  Sanchez Puerta, M Virginia ^a   Cho, Yangrae ^a,b   Mower, Jeffrey P ^a,c   Alverson, Andrew J ^a   Palmer, Jeffrey D ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Angiosperm; cox1; Group I intron; Homing endonuclease; Horizontal transfer

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; ENDONUCLEASE; ENZYME; MATURASE;

ANGIOSPERM; APOCYNACEAE; ARTICLE; EXON; FLOWER; FUNGUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TRANSFER; HIGHER PLANT; INTRON; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PLANTAGINACEAE; POLLINATION; RHAMNACEAE; RUBIACEAE;

ANGIOSPERMS; BASE SEQUENCE; CYCLOOXYGENASE 1; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; INTRONS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

FUNGI; MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 47649085332     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msn129     Document Type: Article

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