The horsetail Equisetum arvense mitochondria share two group I introns with the liverwort Marchantia, acquired a novel group II intron but lost intron-encoded ORFs

Current Genetics

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 69-79

  Bégu, Dominique ^a   Araya, Alejandro ^a  

^a University Victor Segalen   (France)

Author keywords

cox1; cox2; Introns; Mitochondria; Pteridophyte; RNA editing

Indexed keywords

ATP9 PROTEIN; COB PROTEIN; COX1 PROTEIN; COX2 PROTEIN; ENDONUCLEASE; MESSENGER RNA; MITOCHONDRIAL RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EQUISETUM; EQUISETUM ARVENSE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENOME; INTRON; MARCHANTIA; MARCHANTIA POLYMORPHA; MITOCHONDRIAL GENETICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA EDITING;

BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, PLANT; EQUISETUM; INTRONS; MARCHANTIA; MITOCHONDRIA; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OPEN READING FRAMES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA EDITING; RNA SPLICING; RNA, PLANT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EMBRYOPHYTA; EQUISETALES; EQUISETUM ARVENSE; FILICOPHYTA; MARCHANTIA; MARCHANTIA POLYMORPHA; MARCHANTIOPHYTA; PTERIDOPHYTA; SPERMATOPHYTA; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 59649130448     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00294-008-0225-7     Document Type: Article

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