Loss of two introns from the magnolia tripetala mitochondrial cox2 gene implicates horizontal gene transfer and gene conversion as a novel mechanism of intron loss

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 3111-3120

  Hepburn, Nancy J ^a   Schmidt, Derek W ^a,b   Mower, Jeffrey P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

Author keywords

cytochrome oxidase subunit 2; gene conversion; horizontal gene transfer; intron loss; Magnolia tripetala; retroprocessing

Indexed keywords

CYCLOOXYGENASE 2;

ARTICLE; CHIMERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUDICOT; EXON; GENE CONVERSION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOSS; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INTRON; MAGNOLIA TRIPETALA; MAGNOLIACEAE; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT GENETICS; PLANT LEAF; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BASE SEQUENCE; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; GENE CONVERSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENES, PLANT; INTRONS; MAGNOLIA; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA EDITING; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL;

MAGNOLIA; MAGNOLIA TRIPETALA;

EID: 84866954298     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/mss130     Document Type: Article

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