Permuted tRNA genes in the nuclear and nucleomorph genomes of photosynthetic eukaryotes

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1070-1076

  Maruyama, Shinichiro ^a   Sugahara, Junichi ^b   Kanai, Akio ^b   Nozaki, Hisayoshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Endosymbiosis; Green algae; Intron; Nucleomorph; Permuted tRNA; SPLITS

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GENOMIC DNA; INOSINE; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; CODON; DNA SEQUENCE; EUKARYOTE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; INTRON; MICROBIAL GENETICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; RED ALGA; RNA SPLICING; RNA STRUCTURE;

ALGAE; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL NUCLEUS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; RNA, TRANSFER;

ALGAE; BIGELOWIELLA NATANS; CHLORARACHNIOPHYCEAE; CHLOROPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; MICROMONAS (GREEN ALGA); OSTREOCOCCUS; RHODOPHYTA;

EID: 77951529990     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msp313     Document Type: Article

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