The chloroplast genome of the green alga Schizomeris leibleinii (Chlorophyceae) provides evidence for bidirectional DNA replication from a single origin in the Chaetophorales

Genome Biology and Evolution

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 505-515

  Brouard, Jean Simon ^a   Otis, Christian ^a   Lemieux, Claude ^a   Turmel, Monique ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chlamydomonadales; Chloroplast gene rearrangements; Introns; Plastid genome evolution; Replication origin; Short dispersed repeats

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; CHAETOPHORALES; CHLAMYDOMONADALES; CHLAMYDOMONAS; CHLOROPHYCEAE; CHLOROPHYTA; SCHIZOMERIS; SCHIZOMERIS LEIBLEINII; STIGEOCLONIUM; STIGEOCLONIUM HELVETICUM; VOLVOX;

CHLOROPLAST DNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; CHLOROPLAST GENOME; DNA REPLICATION; DNA REPLICATION ORIGIN; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GREEN ALGA; INTRON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHLOROPHYTA; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, CHLOROPLAST; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, CHLOROPLAST; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; REPLICATION ORIGIN; RNA, RIBOSOMAL;

EID: 82255162152     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17596653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evr037     Document Type: Article

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