The mitochondrial genome of green alga Helicosporidium

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Pombert, Jean François ^a   Keeling, Patrick J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PRIMER DNA;

ARTICLE; CHLORELLA; GENE; GENOME; GREEN ALGA; HELICOSPORIDIUM; INTRON; MATURASE GENE; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PROTOTHECA; SIMULIUM; SIMULIUM JONESI; GENETICS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

APICOMPLEXA; CHLOROPHYTA; HELICOSPORIDIUM; INVERTEBRATA; MICROSPORIDIA; PROTISTA; PROTOTHECA; PROTOTHECA WICKERHAMII; SIMULIUM JONESI; SIMULIUM NIGRICOXUM; TREBOUXIOPHYCEAE; VERTEBRATA;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHLOROPHYTA; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 77749245925     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0008954     Document Type: Article

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