Concerted Evolution in the Ribosomal RNA Cistron

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Naidoo, Kershney ^a   Steenkamp, Emma T ^a   Coetzee, Martin P A ^a   Wingfield, Michael J ^a   Wingfield, Brenda D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL RNA; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; CERATOCYSTIS MANGINECANS; CISTRON; CROSSING OVER; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGAL LIFE CYCLE STAGE; FUNGAL STRUCTURES; FUNGUS ISOLATION; FUNGUS SPORE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE CONVERSION; MITOSIS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM;

ASCOMYCOTA; CROSSING OVER, GENETIC; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE CONVERSION; GENES, FUNGAL; GENES, RRNA; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SPORES, FUNGAL;

EID: 84874904292     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0059355     Document Type: Article

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