Conservation of plastid sequences in the plant nuclear genome for millions of years facilitates endosymbiotic evolution

Plant Physiology

Volumn 157, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 2181-2193

  Rousseau Gueutin, Mathieu ^a   Ayliffe, Michael A ^b   Timmis, Jeremy N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

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EID: 82755171705     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: 15322548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.111.185074     Document Type: Article

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