Parallel loss of plastid introns and their maturase in the genus Cuscuta

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  McNeal, Joel R ^a,b   Kuehl, Jennifer V ^c   Boore, Jeffrey L ^c,d   Leebens Mack, Jim ^a   dePamphilis, Claude W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d Genome Project Solutions   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATURASE K; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VEGETABLE PROTEIN; MESSENGER RIBONUCLEIC ACID MATURASE; NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASE; RIBONUCLEASE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUSCUTA; GENE DELETION; INTRON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITISM; PLANT PARASITIC PLANT DISEASE; PLASTID GENOME; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PLANT GENE; PLASTID; PROTEIN BINDING; RNA SPLICING; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ALGAE; CUSCUTA; CUSCUTA NITIDA; EMBRYOPHYTA; EPIFAGUS; EPIFAGUS VIRGINIANA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; STREPTOPHYTA;

BASE SEQUENCE; CUSCUTA; ENDORIBONUCLEASES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, PLANT; GENOME, PLASTID; INTRONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; PHYLOGENY; PLASTIDS; PROTEIN BINDING; RNA SPLICING; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 67650141989     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0005982     Document Type: Article

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