The plastid genome of eutreptiella provides a window into the process of secondary endosymbiosis of plastid in euglenids

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Hrdá, Štěpánka ^a   Fousek, Jan ^b   Szabová, Jana ^a   Hampl, Vladimír ^a   Vlček, Čestmír ^b  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENDOSYMBIOSIS; EUGLENA GRACILIS; EUGLENA LONGA; EUGLENIDA; EUTREPTIELLA GYMNASTICA; GENE; GENE LOSS; GENE ORDER; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; INTRON; INVERTED REPEAT; MAT1 GENE; MAT4 GENE; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENY; PLASTID GENOME; PYRAMIMONAS PARKAE; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASTID; SYMBIOSIS; TRYPANOSOMATID INFECTION;

ALGAE; EUGLENA; EUGLENA GRACILIS; EUGLENIDA; EUTREPTIELLA; PROTISTA; PYRAMIMONAS PARKEAE;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; EUGLENIDA; EUGLENOZOA INFECTIONS; GENOME, PLASTID; PHYLOGENY; PLASTIDS; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84858650035     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0033746     Document Type: Article

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