Multiple group I introns detected in the nuclear small subunit rDNA of the autosporic green alga Selenastrum capricornutum

Current Genetics

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 228-234

  Booton, Gregory C ^a   Floyd, Gary L ^a   Fuerst, Paul A ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Algae; Group I intron; rDNA; Selenastrum; SSU

Indexed keywords

PLANT DNA; SMALL SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL RNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUKARYOTE; FUNGUS; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE INSERTION; GREEN ALGA; INTRON; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT TAXONOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; SELENASTRUM CAPRICORNUTUM; VIRUS;

ALGAE, GREEN; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; INTRONS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION;

ALGAE; CHLOROPHYCEAE; CHLOROPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; INSERTION SEQUENCES; SELENASTRUM; SELENASTRUM CAPRICORNUTUM;

EID: 7744243081     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00294-004-0525-5     Document Type: Article

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