Hyperdiversity of Genes Encoding Integral Light-Harvesting Proteins in the Dinoflagellate Symbiodinium sp

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Boldt, Lynda ^a   Yellowlees, David ^a   Leggat, William ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGAL PROTEIN; CHLOROPHYLL A; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FUCOXANTHIN; LIGHT HARVESTING COMPLEX PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOPHYTA; DINOFLAGELLATE; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; LIGHT HARVESTING SYSTEM; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RED ALGA; STRAMENOPILE; SYMBIODINIUM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CAROTENOIDS; CHLOROPHYLL; DINOFLAGELLIDA; GENES, PROTOZOAN; LIGHT-HARVESTING PROTEIN COMPLEXES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ALGAE; CRYPTOPHYTA; DINOPHYCEAE; RHODOPHYTA; SYMBIODINIUM; SYMBIODINIUM SP.;

EID: 84868148267     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0047456     Document Type: Article

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