A global picture of tRNA genes in plant genomes

Plant Journal

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 80-93

  Michaud, Morgane ^a   Cognat, Valérie ^a   Duchêne, Anne Marie ^a   Maréchal Drouard, Laurence ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

alga; angiosperm; genome evolution; non coding RNA; organelles; SINE

Indexed keywords

ANGIOSPERM; GENOME EVOLUTION; NON-CODING RNA; ORGANELLES; SINE;

ALGAE; CELLS; GALLIUM ALLOYS; NUCLEIC ACIDS; RNA; TRANSCRIPTION;

GENES;

PLANT RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT; ANGIOSPERM; ARTICLE; CONFORMATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GREEN ALGA; INTRON; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT GENE; PLANT GENOME; PSEUDOGENE; SHORT INTERSPERSED REPEAT; TATA BOX;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT, CELL NUCLEUS; ANGIOSPERMS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHLOROPHYTA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; INTRONS; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PSEUDOGENES; RNA, PLANT; RNA, TRANSFER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SHORT INTERSPERSED NUCLEOTIDE ELEMENTS; TATA BOX;

ALGAE; CHLAMYDOMONAS; CHLOROPHYTA; DICOTYLEDONEAE; EMBRYOPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; LILIOPSIDA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; POPULUS TRICHOCARPA;

EID: 79953234509     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: 1365313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2011.04490.x     Document Type: Article

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