From chloroplasts to "cryptic" plastids: Evolution of plastid genomes in parasitic plants

Current Genetics

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 111-121

  Krause, Kirsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

Cryptic plastids; MatK intron maturase; Parasitic plants; Plastid genome evolution; Plastid polymerases; Rubisco

Indexed keywords

RIBULOSEBISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE; RNA POLYMERASE;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ALGA; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; APICOMPLEXA; CHLOROPLAST; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE NUMBER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC REGULATION; GENOME; GENOME ANALYSIS; INTRON; LIVERWORT; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT CELL; PLANT GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; PSEUDOGENE; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ALGAE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANGIOSPERMS; CHLOROPLASTS; GENOME, PLANT; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT PROTEINS; PLASTIDS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ALGAE; EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 50849113730     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00294-008-0208-8     Document Type: Review

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