A deviant genetic code in the reduced mitochondrial genome of the picoplanktonic green alga Pycnococcus provasolii

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 203-214

  Turmel, Monique ^a   Otis, Christian ^a   Lemieux, Claude ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Genome reduction; Green algae; Mitochondrial genome; Nucleotide bias; Prasinophyceae; Variant genetic code

Indexed keywords

ALGAL DNA; NUCLEOTIDE; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CODON; CONFORMATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GENOME SIZE; GREEN ALGA; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT GENE; PLANT GENOME; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHLOROPHYTA; CODON; DNA, ALGAL; GENES, PLANT; GENOME SIZE; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENOME, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEOTIDES; PHYLOGENY; RNA, TRANSFER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ALGAE; CHLOROPHYTA; MAMIELLALES; MICROMONAS (GREEN ALGA); OSTREOCOCCUS; OSTREOCOCCUS TAURI; PRASINOPHYCEAE; PYCNOCOCCUS; PYCNOCOCCUS PROVASOLII;

EID: 77649185561     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00239-010-9322-6     Document Type: Article

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