Fine-scale mergers of chloroplast and mitochondrial genes create functional, transcompartmentally chimeric mitochondrial genes

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 39, 2009, Pages 16728-16733

  Hao, Weilong ^a   Palmer, Jeffrey D ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene conversion; Gene transfer; Recombination

Indexed keywords

PROTON TRANSPORTING ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE SYNTHASE; TRANSFER RNA;

ANGIOSPERM; ARTICLE; ATP1 GENE; ATPA GENE; CHLOROPLAST; GENE; GENE CONVERSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE;

CHLOROPLASTS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE CONVERSION; GENES, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENES, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 70349751729     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0908766106     Document Type: Article

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