Loss of all plastid ndh genes in Gnetales and conifers: Extent and evolutionary significance for the seed plant phylogeny

Current Genetics

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 323-337

  Braukmann, Thomas Werner Anthony ^a   Kuzmina, Maria ^a,b   Stefanović, Saša ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Conifers; Gnetales; Ndh genes; Phylogeny; Seed plants; Slot blot hybridization

Indexed keywords

REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE DEHYDROGENASE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE DEHYDROGENASE A; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE DEHYDROGENASE B; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE DEHYDROGENASE C; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE DEHYDROGENASE D; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE DEHYDROGENASE E; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE DEHYDROGENASE F; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE DEHYDROGENASE G; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE DEHYDROGENASE H; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE DEHYDROGENASE I; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE DEHYDROGENASE J; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE DEHYDROGENASE K; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CLADISTICS; CONIFER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOT HYBRIDIZATION; GENE LOSS; GNETALES; GYMNOSPERM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PINACEAE; PLANT GENE; PLANT SEED; PLASTID GENOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYNAPOMORPHY;

DNA, PLANT; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; GNETOPHYTA; MUTATION; NADPH DEHYDROGENASE; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; PLASTIDS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

CONIFEROPHYTA; GNETALES; GYMNOSPERMAE; PINACEAE; SPERMATOPHYTA;

EID: 67349254201     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00294-009-0249-7     Document Type: Review

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