Evidence for Transitional Stages in the Evolution of Euglenid Group II Introns and Twintrons in the Monomorphina aenigmatica Plastid Genome

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Pombert, Jean François ^a   James, Erick R ^a   Janouškovec, Jan ^a   Keeling, Patrick J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; THYMINE;

ARTICLE; EUGLENIDA; FRESHWATER SPECIES; GENE INSERTION; GENE SEQUENCE; INTRON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MONOMORPHINA AENIGMATICA; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENY; PLASTID GENOME; TWINTRON;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; EUGLENIDA; GENOME, PLASTID; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASTIDS;

CHLOROPHYTA; EUGLENA GRACILIS; EUGLENIDA; EUTREPTIA VIRIDIS; EUTREPTIELLA GYMNASTICA; MONOMORPHINA AENIGMATICA;

EID: 84871808424     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0053433     Document Type: Article

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