Evolution of Mitochondrial Introns in Plants and Photosynthetic Microbes

Advances in Botanical Research

Volumn 63, Issue , 2012, Pages 155-186

  Bonen, Linda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Horizontal transfer; Intron; Mitochondrion; Ribozyme; RNA editing; Splicing; Splicing machinery; Trans splicing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864576853     PISSN: 00652296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-394279-1.00007-7     Document Type: Chapter

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